Large captive bred Megasoma sleeperi

Here's a 40 mm male M. punctulatus that I reared about 5 years ago -

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The largest punctulatus specimen I've ever seen was a captive reared of 47 mm (which is exceptional).

Based on my experience with sleeperi, I suspect that this species can reach approximately the same size as punctulatus under ideal environmental conditions, even though most wild-collected examples tend to be considerably smaller than captive reared ones (as is also the case with punctulatus).

 
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Goliathus said:
Here's a 40 mm male M. punctulatus that I reared about 5 years ago -





The largest punctulatus specimen I've ever seen was a captive reared of 47 mm (which is exceptional).

Based on my experience with sleeperi, I suspect that this species can reach approximately the same size as punctulatus under ideal environmental conditions, even though most wild-collected examples tend to be considerably smaller than captive reared ones (as is also the case with punctulatus).
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Oh my god! I remember this picture on a bugs in cyberspace listing a couple years ago I still was just catching beetles at the time because I never had the money.

 
Teneb said:
Oh my god! I remember this picture on a bugs in cyberspace listing a couple years ago I still was just catching beetles at the time because I never had the money.
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Yes - I showed the photo to Peter, and he asked to use it on his website.

 
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