More New Additions And a Frog Army

 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. variegatus.


I got two specimens of Phlogiellus aper.

These are a fossorial species, basically not coming out except to eat or maybe molt.

The one shown here has just molted, and is currently residing in it's burrow as a clumped up ball of legs

To wrap up this post, a little update: Water Scorpion (Ranatra sp.) have bred


You can see that little tiny stick with legs, and I have a bunch of these, feeding on springtails and sifting through the water.

Anyway, that's all for this post. Thanks for reading!


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