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Best Beetle for Beginners – Ox Beetle Care Guide

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Elephant Beetle Megasoma Care – A Practical Guide

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Rainbow Stag Beetle: Care Guide for Beginners
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Rainbow Stag Beetle: Care Guide for Beginners

Keep the adult rainbow stag beetle in a ventilated tank filled with coir. Add some barks or the beetle to grasp. Feed the beetle with beetle jelly. Mist the tank regularly.
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Atlas Beetle as Pet: A Guide for Beginners
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Atlas Beetle as Pet: A Guide for Beginners

To keep atlas beetles, place the grub into a ventilated container with flake soil. Maintain the temperature at around 72-77 °F (22-25 °C) and keep the flake soil...
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A rainbow dung beetle
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Rainbow Dung Beetle as Pet: A Guide for Beginners

To keep rainbow dung beetles, house them in a fish tank with a mixture of potting soil, organic compost, coco fiber and some sand as substrates. Keep the tank covered and well ventilated. Feed the beetles with soaked dog biscuit.
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Blue Death Feigning Beetles: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to an Incredibly Low-Maintenance Pet
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Blue Death Feigning Beetles: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to an Incredibly Low-Maintenance Pet

Place the adult beetles in a container filled with 2-3” of dry sands. Keep the beetles at room temperature and low humidity. Feed them with dead insects, dog biscuits, or carrots.
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How to Preserve Dead Insect Pets?
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How to Preserve Dead Insect Pets?

While you can bury or cremate your deceased insect pets, the good news is you can also preserve them easily.  Here 3 common methods used by entomologists...
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a giant stag beetle
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The Dormant Stage of Beetles: What Every Keeper Needs to Know

The best way to care for a dormant (hibernating) beetle is to keep it in the original pupation chamber if it is still intact until the beetle naturally breaks the chamber. The pupation chamber can be kept at where it was. If you have broken the pupation chamber,
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I am Haomaru. I started to develop interest in arthropods since 2007, and have been keeping them for a few years. Along the way, I’ve added fish and geckos to my collection.

While I was trying to keep different species, I notice the information in the internet are quite scattered. Hence I have created this blog to share my experience and knowledge to help beginners who want to start keeping exotic pets.

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