New Aquatic Invertebrates and More

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 probably a two or three weeks.

I'm going to feed these live springtails, due to their absolutely miniscule size and due to them being smaller than a melanogaster fruit fly.

But water striders in general grow really fast so I hope I can all raise these quickly. 

And that's all I have to say for these water striders. 

Next up is another aquatic insect I adore. Water scorpions.

Although this is an unidentified specimen, I'm guessing it's some species of Ranatra.

I find these interesting, with that insane camo blending like a stick. These are also predatory so they use their front legs which is kind of like a scythe to grab their prey.

They don't generally move much but yeah pretty interesting.

Here it is, in the box that it was collected in. With surprisingly a tadpole in there aswell.

Speaking of tadpoles, I also recieved two tadpoles of Polypetades leucomystax. I have a few tadpoles I collected myself already with one already a tiny little frog.

These are two tadpoles I got, and they already got those stubby little legs.

Here's the tadpoles and the little frog. The tadpoles are feeding on algae and the frog is readily consuming baby red runners and fruit flies.

Anyway, that's all I have to say for this post. Thanks for taking your time to read, see you in the next post.