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Any websites for populating a terrarium with insects and plants? (Prey, predator, cleanup crew)


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#1 Offline Warchild - Posted December 14 2017 - 5:39 PM

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I want to make a natural setup with insects and what not, along with ants. Any websites?

#2 Offline Hunter - Posted December 14 2017 - 6:00 PM

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don't got a website but i can help you clean up crew and insects is up my way



#3 Offline Hunter - Posted December 14 2017 - 6:02 PM

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don't got a website but i can help you clean up crew and insects is up my way

also are you talking of buying insects



#4 Offline Hunter - Posted December 14 2017 - 6:10 PM

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if you are looking to buy here http://www.insectboa...-buy-trade-sell



#5 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted December 14 2017 - 6:14 PM

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I want to make a natural setup with insects and what not, along with ants. Any websites?

All of the commonly kept species are VERY common and easy to raise. Here are some that you can easily collect in a local forest.

Scavengers/Clean up crew:
Jumping Bristletails

Forest cockroaches (Parcoblatta)
Wild crickets

Pillbugs 

Millipedes (not recommended)
Springtails (extremely common, also you can buy very cheap colonies at Bugsincyberspace and Josh's Frogs)
Native darkling beetles

Clickbeetles

 

Predators:
Centipedes

Ground beetles

Salamanders


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Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
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Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
Day Gecko
Small Fat Centipede
Endemic Lacewing larva
Vernal Pool shrimps

#6 Offline Hunter - Posted December 14 2017 - 6:24 PM

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I want to make a natural setup with insects and what not, along with ants. Any websites?

All of the commonly kept species are VERY common and easy to raise. Here are some that you can easily collect in a local forest.

Scavengers/Clean up crew:
Jumping Bristletails

Forest cockroaches (Parcoblatta)
Wild crickets

Pillbugs 

Millipedes (not recommended)
Springtails (extremely common, also you can buy very cheap colonies at Bugsincyberspace and Josh's Frogs)
Native darkling beetles

Clickbeetles

 

Predators:
Centipedes

Ground beetles

Salamanders

 

add nutes to preditors ;)



#7 Offline Hunter - Posted December 14 2017 - 6:27 PM

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he could also add frogs maybe if in a large setup and if yo wants to keep ant pop down add a few cheep Indotyphlops braminus



#8 Offline Warchild - Posted December 14 2017 - 6:54 PM

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I live in Arizona, so I can’t really collect from a forest. I’ve seen bugs in cyberspace and I’m actually interested in buying from them. Does anyone know what kind of cleanup crew, predators and prey I can collect from where I am?

#9 Offline Hunter - Posted December 14 2017 - 7:01 PM

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basically what conecticut said, you can get some good prices on http://www.insectboa...-buy-trade-sellfrom people



#10 Offline Warchild - Posted December 14 2017 - 7:31 PM

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But I want to collect from my area. Does anyone have any ideas of what to collect

#11 Offline Hunter - Posted December 14 2017 - 7:33 PM

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pillbugs and spring tails ,maybe millies



#12 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted December 15 2017 - 4:33 AM

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But I want to collect from my area. Does anyone have any ideas of what to collect

Try collecting some interesting grassland/dryland species. I know that warm areas are often heavily populated with darkling beetles, which can make for very interesting pets. Certain springtails can be found under rocks after recent rains, and darkling beetles can be found under logs and rocks with other interesting species (scorpions, cockroaches, and certain millipedes). I'd not recommend keeping the millipedes in a community terrarium, though. The cockroaches could be interesting pets, as long as they are native species and have trouble surviving in feral conditions.

Crickets are also fairly easy to find, and they can serve as the bottom of a terrarium community food chain.

 

I'm not sure about the plants in Arizona, but a trip to a nice untouched area should help you find some interesting native plants.


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Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
Technomyrmex Difficilis
Pheidole Megacephala
Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
Day Gecko
Small Fat Centipede
Endemic Lacewing larva
Vernal Pool shrimps

#13 Offline Loops117 - Posted December 18 2017 - 8:52 AM

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You could keep your journal on www.insectboards.com

 

It's a new forum i'm helping with. Would be a great place to help out while also getting some help.

 

When it comes to planted and communal tanks, i keep some.


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#14 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted December 18 2017 - 3:10 PM

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Insectboards is great :D


Hawaiiant (Ben)

Keeper of
Miniature Labradoodle
Baby Wolf Spider
Mud Dauber wasp larvae
Ochetellus Glaber
Solenopsis Geminata
Brachymyrmex Obscurior
Cardiocondyla Emeryi
Tetramorium Bicarinatum
Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
Technomyrmex Difficilis
Pheidole Megacephala
Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
Day Gecko
Small Fat Centipede
Endemic Lacewing larva
Vernal Pool shrimps

#15 Offline Hunter - Posted December 18 2017 - 3:22 PM

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i gave him the link to trade buy and sales soooooooo



#16 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted December 18 2017 - 3:32 PM

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Noice

 

@Warchild, check out Bugsincyberspace for springtails! They sell native species, and I find them tricky to collect.


Hawaiiant (Ben)

Keeper of
Miniature Labradoodle
Baby Wolf Spider
Mud Dauber wasp larvae
Ochetellus Glaber
Solenopsis Geminata
Brachymyrmex Obscurior
Cardiocondyla Emeryi
Tetramorium Bicarinatum
Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
Technomyrmex Difficilis
Pheidole Megacephala
Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
Day Gecko
Small Fat Centipede
Endemic Lacewing larva
Vernal Pool shrimps




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