This time for Cryptocercus I'm not messing around with man-made substrates for them, I'm just using straight, crushed brown rot wood, since this seems to be all they eat in the wild. I've got them in a well ventilated 5 gallon bin filled to the brim with said wood, which I'm keeping moist. I highly suspect a cool period during the winter is required for inducing reproduction in this genus, and the native habitat of this species certainly gets quite cold during the winter (about as cold as it gets here in Idaho), so I have their bin in my garage and will keep it there until February.
Here's hoping they will not only survive long term for me, but will breed as well, that'd be fantastic!
My Gromphadorhini sp. "Black" (ex. "Black Tigers") are doing very well, and threw out several very large major males this generation! They are really most reminiscent of G.portentosa in terms of morphology, but still look different than any of the other pure portentosa stocks in culture IMO...
In interesting news regarding this strain, one keeper, Derek Pitts, who's had their colony for years, and never added other bloodlines to their culture, is having "normal", brown/orange individuals pop up in their culture... so they're reverting for him back to their wild type coloration. This is not unheard of as far as morphs go, and provides us with a valuable opportunity to see what these came from; evidently either an old pure line of G.portentosa, or very portentosa-like mutts.
It will be interesting to see what, if anything, comes from these reverts... At the very least, definitely shows why we shouldn't be calling these "Tigers" of any sort!
My Porcellio expansus "Witch's Potion" are doing great, slowly but surely growing in numbers, and adjusting to a recent enclosure upgrade well! Unfortunately the same can not be said for my "White Skirt" line of expansus, those crashed completely after an enclosure upgrade, and I'm still not 100% sure why. But looks like I'll be having to find more of those soon...
At least I still got these beauties, really hope they explode in population this coming generation! 🤞
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I have finally built up a nice population of Pseudoglomeris magnifica "Kunming, Yunnan, China", and now that they've hit an all time peak in numbers, I am going to attempt to break their diapause this Winter... 😅 Hopefully it goes smoothly, with the numbers I have I think I should be fine, and that should account for mild die offs/reduced reproduction that occurs this winter from the lack of diapause.
I just found a female carrying fresh babies this week, so so far, so good! 😄
Lastly, my Agabiformius cf. lentus "Trastevere" are doing very well, and I got some decent pictures of a group of them recently, which I figured I'd share here.
Really love these little cuties, they're so dang chonky! 😊
Anyways, that does it for this post, thanks for reading, hope everyone enjoyed, and I'll see you all next time! 😉
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