Ometeo Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Hello, I have looked around at the care of these wonderful beasts but am getting conflicting responses from sites that I deem to know what they are talking about. One of the sites mentions A. centaurus to be a really easy species to keep and culture, whereas the second site has a species profile for A. centaurus which refers to it as "best kept by expert beetle keeper". Has anybody here ever kept, or known somebody that has cultured them? Any input is greatly appreciated. -O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Minard Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 If ANYBODY here has them I'd love to get some! They are one of my favs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynastes Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 I'm guessing you've seen this website: rhinoceros beetle site. That's a captive bred male in the photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ometeo Posted November 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 Yes. However natural worlds has their basic care listed as most rhino beetles, yet in the European boards there is some informations which suggests they are a “best left for experts” species to breed. I have often seen them pop up here or there as adults for sale, and have only seen a handful of occasions of larvae for sale. It seems to me that if their care was as most other Dynastids then the hobby would have more as their morphology is very similar to that of the genus Dynastes (which they were classified under initially). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ometeo Posted November 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 Oh, and Ryan, I don’t think anybody (though I don’t know for sure) in the US has any since they are not native, I was simply asking because they seem like such a neat species and it’s strange there aren’t more larvae for sale on the boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynastes Posted November 30, 2011 Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 Keep in mind some species can be easy to rear but difficult to get eggs from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Minard Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 This species is hard to get because there are a lot of scams in Cameroon, where they are from. The guy from Kingdom of Beetle Taiwan said so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynastes Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 This species is hard to get because there are a lot of scams in Cameroon, where they are from. The guy from Kingdom of Beetle Taiwan said so. That's a reason why wild-caught aren't easy to come across but we know they've been bred in captivity going back at least a dozen years and they're still not available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Minard Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Someone needs to get this in culture in the US. It's an amazing species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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