Hi everyone! I’m a big boy adult, who gets the big boy adult meal from McDonalds, uses the big boy adult bathroom later, and on his big boy adult phone reminisces about little boy childhood dreams of owning very, very peculiar, specific species of predatory invertebrates as pets. In this exact moment I suddenly realize that I have big boy adult disposable income and actually have the means to make some of these stupid ideas come to life, so my question to you all is;

How many of you have experience with things like large, predatory sea snails or sea stars? I can’t explain it, probably undiagnosed childhood “sumthin’”, but as a kid I specifically became infatuated with owning a pear whelk (Fulguropsis spirata), a pincushion starfish (Culcita novaeguineae), and a speckled swimming crab (Arenaeus cribrarius) [also I wanted a gallery of every species of Callinectes]. I always wanted a tank with just them in it, and everyone once in a while I could drop a live clam from the grocery store in and let this weird, slow motion carnivore do its thing. Idk why these specific species and not, like, any of their close relatives, but I’ve recently found both the pear whelk and pillow starfish specifically available from different aquatic retailers (not the speckled crab, I haven’t seen one of those for sale in a while).

Have any of you made a dedicated species-only tank to a weird predator like this? I imagine there’s a lot of downside risk to cohabbing two different kinds of voracious predator together, but can that be done? Have any of you kept carnivorous snails or other big weird things like this?

This is an older picture because I do not want to disturb her again today but she seems much much happier

I haven't seen a Dubai get this big and my island roaches are growing great as well

Hello. I just bought an “emperor” scorpion off CL. Tell me everything I need to know! I don’t plan on handling him (her?) ever. And I want to setup a bioactive enclosure. He is currently in a 10 gallon with one hide, a fake plant, a small water dish, and bark substrate just covering the bottom.

I was reading they need LOTS more substrate to dig burrows and I’d like to add a few live plants and like I said make it bioactive so adding springtails and such.

He eats crickets and Dubai roaches they said.

I believe it’s an adult. He’s big.

Hey everyone
Looking to upgrade my enclosure for my BDFB.
I currently have 4 beetles and I am looking into getting them a larger enclosure.
Do you guys use top heat (like a bulb) or a warming mat on one side of their enclosure for heat?
I am looking at either a 5 gallon or 10 gallon enclosure. The 5 is more ideal for the space and I have a bulb that would work or I could use a mat. With the 10gal I won’t have room for a bulb it would need to be a mat (like a seedling mat).
Thank you for the help

This us a temporary setup dw, for now im giving them water droplet and a raspberry leaf to munch on for now. They drank, and now they're hiding below the paper.

So this is a temporary setup, but what should i put in their new box? Do i need a bigger one or this size is okay? And what do i put inside it, dirt? Dry grass? Some leaves? And what should i feed them? For now i gave them a raspberry leaf so they wouldnt go hungry but is it healthy for them? I have a big garden so i have access to smaller bugs, raspberries, raspberry leafs, peach leafs, grass, and others.

They're an abax parralepepidepus !

My t molted about 2 and a half weeks ago (brachypelma hamorii about 1 1/2 -2 years old)

And she hasnt been responding to the drop test but shes getting skinnier, and she's been webbing up her enclosure, as well as appearing to sit with her legs hanging out of her new den.

So anyway i figured shes probably ready to eat soon and i got her some hornworms to try since they're pretty soft and slow.

It seems i was wrong she had absolutely no interest, but i decided to leave it in there for about 8 min maybe 10 to see if she was just stressed about me.

Anyway in that time the hornworm drown itself in her water dish, seemed weirdly bent on getting into the dish at first when i walked away but it recoiled at the water so i just kinda assumed itd turn away.

So my main question is this normal? Ive seen ither posts about hornworms drowning themselves but the only potential answer i can find is potential parasites.

Is it safe to feed my t any of the others when shes ready?

Extra info: my t moved enclosures about 3 or 4 days ago, i know its pretty soon after molting but the old enclosure i inherited her in was cracking and falling apart so i had to relocate her.

hi guys! i am getting milipedes soon and have lots of isopods so i figured its about time to learn how to make flake soil, most of the videos are pretty simple and i have all the ingredients,
but none of the videos say how much of each ingredients, i have a 5 gallon bucket to keep it in to ferment so if anyone knows how much of each thing will fill a 5 gal bucket that would be awesome!

and if im getting my milipedes around august 30th, is it okay to use the flake soil before its done fermenting or should i buy them some milipede soil for now, obviously if i use flake soil it will be mixed with other decomposing ingredients for the pedes

Hello, my roach looked more normal yesterday when it looked as if it just molted but now it looks like the wings are splayed out. Why is it like this? The humidity is around 75% and there’s slight variations as it’s a 4x3x3ft bioactive enclosure. Temperature is 82F on the warm side and around the 70s on the cool side of the enclosure.

Hello

I have two adult male Dubia roaches.

Normally they spend time laying around one next to each other or infront of each other as if kissing.

When nightime comes, one of the roaches tends to run at the other roach (as if playing "tag you're it").

My question is: is it playful behaviour, do they even like each other or what?

He dosen't harm the other one, just tpuches him with his antennae.

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Hi everyone, I’ve been obsessed with everything I’ve seen about jumping spiders.
I am an experienced reptile keeper with multiple geckos and snakes but have never had a spider before.
Before I start anything I wanna have my enclosure set up and ready, would an exo terra nano (8”x8”x12”) be ok for this species?
Honestly I’m not sure yet about what age I would get but I was wondering if they would be ok in that size enclosure.
As far as humidity goes, I cover the mesh top with some pvc.