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Subject: My baby grubs are getting bigger :3

I change shapes just to hide in this place but im still im still an animal...

[UPDATE] Checked on all the hercules beetle grubs today to try and sex them, i have 2 males and 4 females which is perfect for breeding :D

Before.

After.

I've still got 6 of them, one died due to an injury, but its itneresting to see the growth of them, think they are about half way through the grub stage at guess, this (not my photo) is the end result.

Anyone growing anything else at the minute?
Im pretty sure you have your own rhino beetle species in the US, anyone found any?
They are similar in shape although with a much smaller horn, grey colouring with black specks.

Heres the rest of the beetles im currently rearing.

Progress is slow with these, the first photo is from September and the other is from earlier today. I've got a few other species currenly growing aswell.

Dicronorhina derbyana layardi
Been after this species for years, always wanted some, currently got 13 grubs which look like they'll be pupating soon, heres what the adults look like.

Mecynorrhina torquata
These are real monsters, pretty hyped to keep them, got 6 larvae young larvae. Keeping them individually in seperate tubs and to keep track of their progress easier i've named them after the 6 direwolves in Game of Thrones :3
Heres the adults.

Eudicella schultzeorum pseudowoermani
That photo their is of my adults. I originally got 23 larvae, ended up with 10 males, 10 females, couldnt ask for a better result. They were the first success that kicked me off to get try more. The adults died off around the same time from old age, still got one, but their larvae are growing now. Here you can see the last adult along with some of the current 100 larvae, most had already burrowed down during the photo and i had already sold and trade another 100.

There's also a couple of others although i dont really have enough to breed, they are all from the same Pachnoda genus, it was pretty nice to see the diversity between them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/invertsfromhell/8125306345/in/ph otostream

[Edited on 12.07.2012 1:36 PM PST]

  • 11.16.2012 7:03 AM PDT

http://www.last.fm/user/metaldiscussor

OMG OP SO CUUUUTE! :3

  • 11.16.2012 7:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: TomatoDemon
Hear that?...It's the sound of no one caring.

WHAT THE -blam!- -blam!- IS THAT -blam!-

  • 11.16.2012 7:04 AM PDT

Souls Don't Die.

AHHHH!! GET IT AWAY!

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  • 11.16.2012 7:05 AM PDT
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Wtf OP D:

  • 11.16.2012 7:06 AM PDT
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Foman is my favorite moderator. <3

Have you ever tried to eat one OP?

  • 11.16.2012 7:07 AM PDT

Dude What.

Nice, OP.

  • 11.16.2012 7:08 AM PDT

So Says Shadroxon.

Holy -blam!-! Those grub are huge. Rhinoceros beetles, eh? Pretty cool.

And yeah, we have rhino beetles in the US. Found a dead one once. Prserved it in peroxide for awhile.


[Edited on 11.16.2012 7:11 AM PST]

  • 11.16.2012 7:08 AM PDT

Eat one of them OP. DO IT TO ASSERT YOUR ALPHA DOMINANCE.

[Edited on 11.16.2012 7:09 AM PST]

  • 11.16.2012 7:08 AM PDT

I change shapes just to hide in this place but im still im still an animal...


Posted by: A Good Troll
Have you ever tried to eat one OP?


No, too damn expensive for that, they are a rare sub species of rhino beetle, luckily i mnaged to get them at a fiver each. The seller was moving to uni i think and had to get rid of his collection, got them for a fiver each, later after the advert a big breeder was selling a pair of grubs for £60.


Posted by: Shadroxon
Holy -blam!-! Those grub are huge. Rhinoceros beetles, eh? Pretty cool.


Yup, sub species of them, little smaller i think and instead of having two bumps near the base of their horn they have one fatter one.

[Edited on 11.16.2012 7:10 AM PST]

  • 11.16.2012 7:09 AM PDT


Posted by: Dude Wat
Nice, OP.


Your profile picture is my reaction to... whatever those worm things are. Grubs or something...?

  • 11.16.2012 7:11 AM PDT
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Foman is my favorite moderator. <3

OP should raise them and have them mate, then sell grubs to fund his college education.

  • 11.16.2012 7:11 AM PDT

This.

  • 11.16.2012 7:11 AM PDT

....why.... just... why?

  • 11.16.2012 7:12 AM PDT

The world is full of mysteries, and shares too few of the answers required. An example of which, is how did I end up in the Brute Zone?

But will it blend?

  • 11.16.2012 7:14 AM PDT

Remember Elk

Yjru öppl omyrtrdyomh, niy O epiöfm'y esmy pmr pg ,u pem.

  • 11.16.2012 7:14 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

D:
I'm going to let you do whatever that is, and leave now. I have no idea how someone could like that though.

  • 11.16.2012 7:15 AM PDT

I change shapes just to hide in this place but im still im still an animal...


Posted by: Aythor
"This photo was taken on January 21, 2008 using a Casio EX-FH20."

Seems legit.


Whenever i put new batteries in my camera it resets the date, i can never be bothered to reset it. 2008 is when it was realesed i suppose.


Posted by: A Good Troll
OP should raise them and have them mate, then sell grubs to fund his college education.


Thats the plan, although i breed them so after my first ones die, i get to rear the young instead of never seeing them again. Its also more interesting challenge, i make some money but it only goes back into getting either more exotic pets or new enclosures.

  • 11.16.2012 7:16 AM PDT
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HOLY -blam!-!

Someone get a blowtorch!

  • 11.16.2012 7:20 AM PDT

Perpetual Ninja in training.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

DMH

Los Paranoias

Nice OP, not my thing, but it looks like you've got it down. Pretty damn cool.

  • 11.16.2012 7:20 AM PDT

Posted by: CultMiester4000
I'm not really an Apple person (Bananas forever) but damn, that's kinda sad.

At first I was horrified

Then I was like ":D"

They look... oddly appealing...

  • 11.16.2012 7:21 AM PDT

NON FACET NOBIS CALCITRARE VESTRUM PERNĒ¢UM

Put it to you like this, I respect that those are your pets, but damn are they gross.

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Posted by: SH4D0W0733
Yjru öppl omyrtrdyomh, niy O epiöfm'y esmy pmr pg ,u pem.

Huh!?

[Edited on 11.16.2012 7:23 AM PST]

  • 11.16.2012 7:21 AM PDT