Showing posts with label Paraplecta minutissima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paraplecta minutissima. Show all posts

Saturday, December 24, 2016

New Young

Hey Friends,
Since I've last posted I've gotten babies from two species, my E.lixa and Paraplecta sp.!
Very unfortunately, only one of the Eurycotis oothecae has hatched and the others are really looking like they won't since it's way past the time when they would've. The one hatch yielded a meer four fairly messed up-looking nymphs, two of which have perished for unknown reasons, leaving me with only two. So things definitely aren't looking good for me keeping this species in my collection, may have to just end up reacquiring them. Right now I'm just keeping them in small two ounce deli cups with some coconut fiber and a piece of egg crate.
Here are some pics of the nymphs.

E.lixa nymphs
The other roach that I got some young from are, of course, my Paraplecta sp.. These guys were giving me some trouble before, but since I added other roaches' frass to their enclosure, which they apparently feed on, they have been doing better. The nymphs are so tiny, probably like two mm long! I'm thinking there's about a dozen, but there are likely some more that I haven't seen.
Here's some pictures!

Paraplecta sp. nymphs
 Hopefully I continue to do well with this miniscule feeder species.
I think that all the updates I have for now, stay tuned for my next post on my new inverts from Peter Clausen(they're some good ones) and see 'ya! :)

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Some Feeders from Peter and Another New Spider!

Greetings Once Again Guys!
I recently got a new shipment from Peter! I received 24+ Little Kenyan roaches, 50+ mealworms, and a coconut fiber disk. Another great transaction! The coconut fiber disk was small, but it made a good amount of substrate and it was just enough to get some substrate in all of my containers. I already fed off 5 mealworms to my ground beetles and wolf spider and they love them! I may feed off a couple of my Little Kenyans, but right now I'm mainly just trying to get the colony to reproduce to a stable amount before I start feeding them off regularly. By the way, a couple of the mealworms were already pupae when I received them, which is great!
Here's some pictures of them and their enclosures, which are a plastic Zip lock container with some ventilation holes in the lid and a plain old plastic container.

Little Kenyan roach enclosure


Little Kenyan roach nymphs


Mealworms and their enclosure

Mealworm pupae
I also found another really cool spider while checking under some rocks in my yard! It was an adult male Dysdera crocata( Woodlouse Hunter)! It's really cool that I found one of these because they are pretty hard to come by and the last time I remember seeing one was a couple years ago! These guys are pretty unique in that they have 6 eyes instead of the normal 8 eyes that a spider usually has, they are a lot less hairy than the usual spider, and they specialize in eating isopods, which are vary hard for many other insects to devour due to their hard exoskeleton! I am excited to keep one of these because they can supposedly live a couple years as adults in captivity! Here's some pictures of him and the cool little web he created, which he included some coconut fiber in!


Dysdera crocata

Dysdera crocata in web
Happy to share some photos of my insects with you guys again, and I hope you all enjoyed! Until next time, good bye!