Roachbread's Bug Blog

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...

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...