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Keeping Beetles as Pets?

Started By evanmancini2011 , Yesterday, 5:49 PM

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#1 Offline evanmancini2011 - Posted Yesterday, 5:49 PM

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I was looking into keeping Beetles as pets specifically Darkling Beetles. Since all of my ant species are in hibernation I want some other insect to keep that will keep me busy. My goal with these Beetles is to make/buy a bran substrate for the meal worms and a terrarium where the adult Beetles will be hopefully reproducing and laying eggs. I know that meal worms hate moisture so there will have to be fake plants in the terrarium and the reproduction will be slower since the mealworms will eat some of the eggs that the adult Beetles lay. But overall I hope this will be good.

Does anyone have tips on how to keep these Beetles? And any tips on this enclosure I will hopefully make?

Thank you for your time!

Evan Mancini

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