Pet inverts?

Any invert keepers here? Looking to connect with other keepers, in particular millipede, cockroach, and mantid keepers. EDIT: also ant keepers! Though I don't keep ants(yet)

SHOW US PICTURES!!! I’m not a keeper of these critters but I love to see what pets others are enjoying.


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Here's a few photos. The baby mantids hatched only a couple of days ago. :3

Do shrimp count???

I have always been fond of giant millipedes, but unfortunately they are illegal here as pets They are so lovely!

Is keeping mantids difficult? I purchased an eggsack from a greenhouse quite a number of years ago, but it didn't hatch despite my providing it the (apparently) required temperatures/etc...

Hi Bug n Flock

I have Malaysian trumpet snails (that arrived accidentally through my plants) in my 4 feet planted tank with Angel fish, Lemon and Black phantom tetras) and also Assassin snails (again stowaways) in my 2.5 feet Cardinal tetra tank.

The trumpet snails do a good job of keeping my substrate aerated.

The above two are not "pets"

There is a Neon red cray fish in my office tank; s/he is very interactive but has killed 4 Angelfish over last month. So he is due to be removed, probably by this evening.

Crayfish are beautiful and amazing pets; but please don't keep them with other fish, especially slow moving ones.


cheers

Avin

Don't get those assassin snails in your other tank. They can potentially decimate you mts population

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MonicaMc said:

Do shrimp count???

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I keep lots of shrimp too. All neocaridina but 6 different color morphs. Lots of tanks at my house

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I only have cherry and bloody mary as far as Neos go.

Had some "yellows" (Neos) that didn't survive... and YKK's (Caridina).... which were killed via roommate and a neighbor... not happy about that situation.

Also have the amanos (obviously!) and opae ulas.

MonicaMc said:

I only have cherry and bloody mary as far as Neos go.

Had some "yellows" (Neos) that didn't survive... and YKK's (Caridina).... which were killed via roommate and a neighbor... not happy about that situation.

Also have the amanos (obviously!) and opae ulas.

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Love my amanos, that stinks about your neighbor. I always hate to hear about such things. Back on topic I kept various larve and Dubai roaches when I had chameleons. They all ate better than me.

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We used to keep a millipede and have had a number of stickinsects and a mantis before.
We no longer keep them but they were different and very interesting to have around.

Carpathian said:

Don't get those assassin snails in your other tank. They can potentially decimate you mts population

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Yes! I am aware! The assassin snails were also stowaways. But they are also sold here (MTS are not) . I am careful not to let the snails or the water go from one tank to the other. Barring the unlikely case of some accidental transfer it won't happen.

But I do feed the 'surplus' MTS to my assassins.

cheers

Avin

I keep 2 species of roach currently(have kept others in the past and will be getting more roaches eventually): Blaptica dubia and Eublaberus posticus. 1 species of mantis(wish I could say how easy they are or aren't, but these are my first): Tenodera sinensis, 1 species of milipede(caught one while on a hike with a friend, and caught one(not really, the milli hitchhiked home w us, we were hundreds of miles from our campsite when I noticed him crawling on the gear, so he joined my community tank) on a camping trip my boyfriend, his brother and girlfriend, and I took for that solar eclipse last year. Turns out they were a breeding pair and I now have hundreds upon hundreds of baby millis. :3 Species: Narceus americanus


Also have many species of isopod, a few fruit fly species, a handful of beetle species, a couple of volunteer spiders..... the list goes on. I started out about a year and a half ago setting up a "bioactive" 10 gallon, but then never putting a large critter in. Now I have sooo many "empty" tanks as I sometimes call them. My pride and joy tank is a large planted 55 gallon aquarium that sits at the head of my bed. I have day and night species and lights.... The tank is *always* doing something. During the day it is usually isopods and mantids out hunting flies, night is the millis, the roaches(super interesting to watch them stake out territories and woo ladyroaches). The tank is *extremely* biologically active... Grows mushrooms, mold, plants, etc etc etc... It's a wonder I ever walk away from this stunning thing.

From watching I have noted a few significant deviations from what the literature says for 2 of the species: the mantids and the millis. The milli's reproductive biology is absolutely *not* as outlined in scientific literature, and my mantids I have observed feeding *well* outside of the "live prey only" that the internet states(have not had time to check the literature for these guys yet). Very interesting stuff.