Lucanus Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 This male was found inside a tree cavity along with three females and another male. Quote
Skink Posted February 8, 2013 Report Posted February 8, 2013 I love the blonde haired heart throb look his dark shell gives. He's really cute! Nice find, especially with the females! Quote
Lucanus Posted September 11, 2013 Author Report Posted September 11, 2013 Offspring of this male : Quote
Lucanus Posted September 16, 2013 Author Report Posted September 16, 2013 thats a huge pupae It's the biggest one I have so far. lol Quote
Lucanus Posted September 16, 2013 Author Report Posted September 16, 2013 Got my first female to emerge Quote
LarvaHunter Posted September 16, 2013 Report Posted September 16, 2013 Awesome pictures! The pupa is nice. Quote
wizentrop Posted September 18, 2013 Report Posted September 18, 2013 That pupa is epic. Can't wait to see the adult male! Quote
Markelangelo Posted September 19, 2013 Report Posted September 19, 2013 How did you get that one to be huge? That thing is enormous!! Quote
Lucanus Posted September 19, 2013 Author Report Posted September 19, 2013 Awesome pictures! The pupae is nice. Thanks He is my fav. specimen Quote
Lucanus Posted September 19, 2013 Author Report Posted September 19, 2013 That pupa is epic. Can't wait to see the adult male! Me too! I'm so excited right now Quote
Lucanus Posted September 19, 2013 Author Report Posted September 19, 2013 How did you get that one to be huge? That thing is enormous!! Apparently, my home-made substrate was good enough to get this major specimen Quote
Markelangelo Posted September 19, 2013 Report Posted September 19, 2013 Do you have a special recipe? If so you should share or sell it off for bug money! Quote
Lucanus Posted September 19, 2013 Author Report Posted September 19, 2013 Do you have a special recipe? If so you should share or sell it off for bug money! There aren't any special recipe for it. I pretty much use only flour as an additive for fermenting my sub. Quote
Lucanus Posted October 5, 2013 Author Report Posted October 5, 2013 That's one big d tityus! It's the biggest I have Can't wait to see him become a beautiful adult Quote
Dynastes Posted October 5, 2013 Report Posted October 5, 2013 He looks great, word of warning though, some years back I was thrilled to rear the most massive and impressive D. tityus I had ever seen. I set him up with a bunch of females after he was old enough to feed and a few weeks later I noticed a dead female. I looked and she had not died a natural death. The male had to have used his horns to smash the base of her legs into her thorax. The other females had holes and dents all over their elytra. I got rid of him and the surviving females fast and set up some smaller males. Quote
Lucanus Posted October 5, 2013 Author Report Posted October 5, 2013 He looks great, word of warning though, some years back I was thrilled to rear the most massive and impressive D. tityus I had ever seen. I set him up with a bunch of females after he was old enough to feed and a few weeks later I noticed a dead female. I looked and she had not died a natural death. The male had to have used his horns to smash the base of her legs into her thorax. The other females had holes and dents all over their elytra. I got rid of him and the surviving females fast and set up some smaller males. That reminds me of this massive grantii I got this year that killed my female. From now on, I'm not going to keep male and female together and will only let them mate when I'm watching. Quote
Lucanus Posted October 6, 2013 Author Report Posted October 6, 2013 Waiting for him to spread his wings... Quote
Markelangelo Posted October 7, 2013 Report Posted October 7, 2013 That monster is beautiful!! Is the red it's final colour? Quote
Lucanus Posted October 7, 2013 Author Report Posted October 7, 2013 That monster is beautiful!! Is the red it's final colour? Thank you Red isn't its final color. Color will gradually change from red to gray to dark gray to almost black and eventually, you get the nice yellow specimen. Quote
Lucanus Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Posted October 14, 2013 Not an accurate way of measuring but the pic still shows how big this specimen is Quote
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