Eleodes subnitens larva! :D

jreidsma

jreidsma

Eudicella
Hi,

I am so excited! While feeding my E. subnitens colony I found a little tiny wormy (larva) that quickly ran away into the soil
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Maybe after a little while, couple days or weeks or something I will try digging around and try to see how many I can find and maybe separate them like I have done the obscurus that Zephyr gave me
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jreidsma said:
Hi,

I am so excited! While feeding my E. subnitens colony I found a little tiny wormy (larva) that quickly ran away into the soil
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Maybe after a little while, couple days or weeks or something I will try digging around and try to see how many I can find and maybe separate them like I have done the obscurus that Zephyr gave me
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congratulations!
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The larvae definitely have a way of sneaking up on me too. I won't know I have any and will suddenly notice one against the cage wall at least an inch long! And where there's one...

 
There must be others!
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I can't see any tunnels or anything suggesting I have larva... Maybe where I am using coconut coir and sand it collapses on itself?

I even dug around a bit and looked for some a couple weeks ago, lol.

 
I found five little tiny larva
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I separated them and gave them different types of food like I have done my obscurus. Oats, fish food, hermit crab food, cricket food, carrots, all just to name a few.

I have found that the obscurus seem to like oats, as there are tiny little marks like they have taken a bite on them. They also love carrots.

 
I just have sand a coconut coir mixed up with carrots in each corner (submerged in the substrate for the larva to eat) and then I water one corner to keep it moist.

The bad thing is with this substrate, the whole tank is staying kind of moist. But the beetles don't seem to mind yet, maybe I could drill more air holes.

 
How exciting! That is the same substrate I have in my tank. 50% sand and 50% coconut stuff with a carrot in the corner.
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I haven't notices my whole substrate staying damp but I have a light on my tank. It dries everything out.

 
Oh there are quite a few. I got the beetles as a display tank for my son, rather than getting fish, without giving much thought to breeding them. Now that we have them and I like them so much things might change.
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We have 3 Eleodes subnitens, 1 Asbolus verrucosus, 3 Cryptoglossa variolosa, 2 Eleodes osculans, and 2 different unknowns. The only confirmed male/female pairs are the Eleodes osculans and the Cryptoglossa variolosa. Well confirmed by my newbie-ness.
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Ahh, a community tank
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If you don't mind me asking, where did you get the beetles? I have been wanting death feigning beetles for a while now.

If you get any babies let me know
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Maybe by then I will have more larva of mine and maybe we can swap or something?

 
I got all but 3 beetles from Bugsincyberspace.com. My son wanted Blue Death Feigning Beetles but everyone was sold out, Peter was super kind and sent one just for my son, who is thrilled to have it. It's his favorite followed by one unknown he named Speedy because it's the fastest.
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The Black Death Feigning Beetles were sent by a kind member of the aracnoboards but they were suppose to be Blues. I thought their blue powder was just knocked off in shipping but after a week of them not turning blue I looked closer and they were so different than the blue. The Blue has pointy bumps on his elytra but the Blacks have smooth bumps. The Blue has thicker legs and stands taller than the Blacks.

So yeah, that's how I got them.
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I'm waiting for bugsincycberspace.com to get some more Asbolus verrucosus back in stock. I plan on buying a few more of those since my son likes them so much.

If they have babies and I can tell the difference in the mealworms, which I read was difficult to do, I would like to see what I could trade them for.

 
I would be interested in them even if you didn't know which they were
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I only have Eleodes subnitens and Eleodes obscurus so far, and I don't have any death feigning beetles. So almost all of them that they could be form your tank would be new to me
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The blues are kind of hard to find aren't they. Almost every place is sold out.

Hope they all do well for you
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All four of the little babies died all in the same day for some reason... Hmm
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Maybe they need to stay in soil for a little bit longer.

So I think I will just leave the babies in the adult tank until I see them and then take them out. And maybe wait until they look like they have molted a couple times.

Hopefully I will get more babies from these beetles. I was expecting to get more than this but I guess I need to have some patience
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Inle said:
Weird that they all died the same day. When are the meal worms suppose to come out of the soil?
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I think that depends on the person. The wormies don't come out until they turn into beetles I think (well, sometimes you can find larva on the surface).

Some people just leave the larva in until they get pretty big, then pull them out. But because the substrate has no edible parts I was going to pull them early as soon as I saw them.

But now I put a bunch more carrots in the tank so the larva would have something to feed on.

I don't guess my beetles are eating the larva/eggs....? I hope not.

 
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