Exciting Updates!

 Hello everyone. In this day alone (1/5/24) there were many very exciting things that happened.

I would like to share today's experiences in this blog post.

The scarlet millipedes (Trigoniulus corallinus) have been really active and thriving lately. They are voracious eaters too, and have produced some offspring.

Scarlet millipede feeding on tomato

They are absolutely tiny little pedelings, and my phone camera can't really take pictures of tiny stuff that well.

So forgive me for that part, but here they are!

Scarlet pedeling

They are so cute. It will take quite a while for them to reach maturity, but it's not a big deal. Its just a few years... Right..?

But anyway, I spotted around 10 or 15 offspring but I am sure there are more hidden below the substrate.

So fingers crossed for them to grow well 😄

If you had read that post, remember the Argiope anasuja female I collected from Berastagi?

She had just eaten her first meal with me.

A. anasuja eating

I dropped baby lobster roach in her web, left her alone for a bit and came back to her webbing the roach.

Safe to say, the roach was completely paralyzed in that webbing. 😅 

But anyway, it's a great thing that she has ate and will have a plump and healthy abdomen.

Can you guess what's special with this image? 

These are newborn (except the larger orange one) harlequin roaches, Neostylopyga rhombifolia.

They were actually dying out due to my mistake of not providing a humid corner for them to drink or hide in, and yes they are a dry and arid species but they do still need at least one corner humid. I'm using moist sphagnum moss.

After adding a humid corner, I have seen a pretty good growth progress from the older batches of nymphs, as you can see with the large orange one.

More oothecas have hatched too (probably not from the moist sphagnum) today.

I hope I can raise these nymphs to maturity and have a thriving colony. 🤞

This one is one of the things that absolutely made my day today. Of course I was delighted by all the events today, but this was by far the best or maybe most important one today.

So, couple months ago, my friend sent me a group of 7 Anoplodesmus saussurii. They all died out except one, and with one adult, I really thought there was no hope left for this colony. 

Little did I know, there were eggs hidden in the substrate, deep below.

I left some food for the only specimen to feed on yesterday, and look what I came back to.

Tiny little saussurii pedelings! I hope I can care for these little ones well for them to reach maturity.

I spotted about 10 specimens, but I am hoping for more under the substrate as well.

Fingers crossed for a happy colony in the future. These guys really mean a lot to me 😁

And if you have read some previous posts, you probably know my aquatic invertebrate tank. Lately, this tank has become a whole established ecosystem haha 😂

Lots of new invaders had entered the tank, probably via hardscape or plants.

Needless to say, I still want them to be in this tank. 

First thing that I noticed are ostracods.

They're these tiny little critters swimming around.

Another invader is actually an aquarium pest, but they are completely harmless and actually serve as a pretty good clean-up-crew.

Alright, we talked about the limpets in the past. But what are those.. centipedes!?

Nope, detritus worms. These guys feed on any decaying matter, algae, and more. They serve as a great clean-up-crew but they do reproduce fairly quickly so in the future I might have to cull some.

Alright, that's all for today's events. But I just want to showcase a species I got a couple of days ago.

These are Porcellio laevis "Dairy Cow".

Why are they red? Well I just fed them some dry pellets so yeah 😅

Anyway that's all for this post. Thanks for taking your time to read and goodbye! 👋