and you remind me of the same thing.... Waiting for mine to pop... but just hope nothing bad happen with all those mites on her...

people. picture please.

a picture is a thousands words in colors.

off topic pic.lol



looks like my breeding project turn out well. see the food.imagine how many crickets are in there. this is a tub that can hold 8 adult afs in a communal setup nicely.

i'm gonna doa week to week review on the conditions of the colonies that i find. i also am going to make a map of the locations and some pictures of the surrounding and try to find out why are they more concentrated on the more busy areas as oppose to the quieter areas and also to find out what they actually eat in the wild.

Those crix will b making u alittle busy when it comes to feeding time for ur inverts.. They will jump n escape easily... but nice set up though.. i really like it...

not for feeding. pure breeding. i have coco peat inside as substrate too. millipedes will be recruited accordingly. it seems that those normal millipedes have an population explosion a few months ago. they are everywhere now.

oh my.... millipedes... Oh pure for breeding.. ok.. but i dont see any adults in there yet.. How many is in there?
with that colony u will surely have tons on pinheads..

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Added on October 20, 2009, 4:18 pmcan even open a small shop selling pinheads..

This post has been edited by rideon: Oct 20 2009, 04:18 PM

I tried modding my afs tank to this

But it turns out like this


I really regret renovating it

hahaha ... hmmm ok la... not that bad ... quite nice ..why regert ??? btw is the milo that molted or gong li ??? lol ...

Very wet huh.

I dunno is tat milo or gong li but is a female
Memang wet bang, i flooded it
By 2molo it will dry up again

try using bird nest fern. They're hardy and do well on high humidity setups.

female is gong li

Will do when i visit jusco nursery again
Saw a lot nice plant but have2 research 1st, takut poisonous le
Not sure if they have bird nest fern or not

Oh ok

hmmm pass me the bird nest ... u use the fern kk ....

Ryo, I think what went wrong is that the substrate. Imo, the guy used those soil that is quite sticky and will harden when dry, example like those yellow mud/sand/soil when use jentolak korek lantai,will find a lot.... Coco fiber dont really hold the shape, they collapse unless you housing a tarantula which can web 2 secure the structure. I think they are more suitable for inverts which need drier condition cause they will "melt" when too wet or you can try clay to shape the structure and cover with cocofiber. And for bird nest fern, IMO do not need to buy from nursery, they are available on big tree at road side. 1 thing, they contain a lot of bugs, cause they grow on rotten parts of trees and usually contain mites. That is the reason why i still havent plant the fern that i got inside my inverts tank. And quite big bark you got there, bought it or?

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Added on October 20, 2009, 5:36 pmsam, those pellets looks so colourful, a 8 years old kid will love it
Oh ya, btw, how you prevent those big crix outgrown the smaller crix and eventually eat them up? I found out that my crix number have been decreasing, mostly those smaller size gone. But those bigger size do grow well.

This post has been edited by *FallenAngel*: Oct 20 2009, 05:39 PM

No la Rui, i can shape the landscape if i wan, remember i made my emp hide with compressed coco fiber then dig it with my finger?
It can hold very well
The driftwood i used i bought from Sri rampai lfs, thinking to buy one more for my balsasensis

well fallenangel,those are whiskas cat food and they are safe, i even nibble on them from time to time. they are abit on the salty side.

plus i dont have kids in my room. this is at my camp not my hometown.

well actually i just let nature do the work for me. this tank was not clean or maintain for almost 3 month already.only last sunday i decided to clean it up. i was expecting rotting crickets and tons of very dirty rotting meterial but to my surprise there was none. only a kind of dust was at the bottom.

i thing that i always made sure to have are a ridiculous amount of hiding places. i use 4 egg crates in that setup. so there is ample room for them to hide. food i put on top but the as u know crickets they will dragg the food down. so what is left the small ones will eat while the big guys stay at the top.

and that is it actually. i dont have any other way of explaining on how i keep them alive till now. they survive 14 days without my care when i was in kl so i must be doing sumthing right.

rideon,

i think there is an excess of 150 maybe more cost there are pinheads in that enclosure. so i cant really say. like i said this is a breed and forget system and i am anticipating the sounds of the male crickets soon. i miss the chirps.the more the merrier.

This post has been edited by akagidemon: Oct 20 2009, 08:15 PM

you miss thay chirp while i want to kill every one that chirp loudly... lol..well i hope you have an ample amount of crix in the future.. It seems you have done something right there as there is less death occur.. i would like to hear on how you keep them alive especially the little ones.. I had mine grow to juvie but majority got eaten or died for unknown reasons...

LOL... i gave up breeding crickets a long time ago after i realize that i can purchase 50 + small crickets for rm1.. hmmm which normally able to last me for a week considering some died some fedto the inverts ... and some eaten by their own kind ..

but speaking back of breeding cricjets i do miss the pins heads .. lol ...

i have no choice since there are no crickets being sold in sibu.

hey. the next time i;m in sibu i'll look you up. i go there often. 2 times a year.