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Roach Updates and Invertebrate "Spotting"

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 Hello. I haven't posted here in a while, so why not give some updates? First of all, here are some pretty dominant colonies still going strong. Neostylopyga rhombifolia and Periplaneta americana. So first of all, on 25/5/2025, I went to a pretty small unused patch of grass or land to see what I could find. The area around here is quite abundant in invertebrate species, and reptiles too. I found a lot of species, such as earwigs, spiders, roaches, moths, etc. But the ones that I will be mainly focusing on are a species of roach that I collected here. Lobopterella dimidiatipes L. dimidiatipes is a small, wingless species of roach that to my knowledge isn't too commonly kept around the hobby. They are a stunning species though, having some very nice looking pattern. I collected a few of these nymphs from there, and I kept them in a little cup with sphagnum and bark. Just three days later, on the 28th of May the first adult matured. As you can see above, the mature specimens have ...
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More New Additions And a Frog Army

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 Hello everyone. Welcome to another post So recently, I received quite a few new additions. One of them including a bunch of tadpoles and froglets of Polypetades leucomystax. I am keeping these in large jars with leaf litter and water as the base substrate with some bark sticking out as the land area. The tadpoles are feeding on algae in the water and the froglets were feeding on small insects. After about a week of keeping these froglets, they have basically all reached the frog stage. I have maybe about 7-10 of these little frogs and they seem to all be doing really well communally. These from what I've seen can grow maybe about 1-2 inches as adults. So that's pretty much it for the frogs, and next I got something pretty interesting. I am sure a lot of you have seen these.  These are Ctenolepisma longicaudata, which are silverfish. I'm keeping these in a simple enclosure consisting of cocofiber and egg cartons. I also recently got this dwarf scorpion species, Chaerilus cf...
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New Aquatic Invertebrates and More

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Hello, welcome to another post. I've always wanted to be able to successfully breed and keep aquatic invertebrates, but I never really got the chance or succeed. Recently, I collected a small group of Limnogonus fossarum in a small pond, or kind of an abandoned fountain. Here's one of them feeding on a red runner nymph. These are a pretty interesting and probably one of my favorite species. I like that coloration and striping on the wings. Since these lay eggs usually in floating surfaces in the water, I provided plenty of leaf litter and also a piece of driftwood. I originally collected seven specimens, one looking pretty gravid. The one on the left seems pretty gravid, and turns out she was. I kept these for only a few weeks, with unfortunately the gravid one dying out and a few others too. But lucky enough, I came home to check on the enclosure and spotted something great. Some newborn nymphs. These actually took so much faster than I expected to hatch, only having these for...
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Porcellionides pruinosus Care Guide

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Porcellionides pruinosus, commonly known as powder isopods, are a species in the family Porcellionidae, and are native to Europe. These get their name from the powdery texture of their carapace and it is pretty visible and makes them quite unique in my opinion. This species is commonly used to be cleanup crew and feeders aswell for other reptiles, amphibians, and other invertebrates.  In the hobby, many keepers and breeders have cultivated a lot of morphs, such as oreo crumble, white out, red koi, etc. They are a pretty widespread species, both in the invertebrate hobby and in the world. This species is pretty widespread, going all the way from North America, to Southeast Asia and even in New Zealand. Photo credit: TC Insects These guys are a pretty easy species to keep. So let's dive into how I keep this species. Housing I house my P. pruinosus in a small storage container, about 25x15cm or something like that, but going larger would work aswell. Enclosure is pretty self explanato...
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