Deroplatys Terrestrial Invert Gallery

[Deroplatys]

Heres some of my invertebrates i have either kept or that i am still keeping.
Dont wory i wont spam a fish forum lol, and will be on here mainly for the fish but just wanted to post this before i forgot

 

[Shrimper]

Those are some great pics.

I love the Mantis, are they easy to keep?

 

[Saedcantas]

Gorgeous collection Deroplatys

I've just fallen in love with the yellow knee'd phasmid, what is it???

 

[Deroplatys]

Thx guys,
Yes Shrimper, mantids are relitivly easy to keep, all problems can arise with mroe complicated species. They are great to keep, feed once every 3 days on average, no extra heat needed, no extra light
Saedcantas the yellow phasmid is a young fern insect, very attractive although fiddly stick insect, which as the name suggests only feeds in ferns, preferably the tongue shaped ones

 

[Saedcantas]

Awesome, do you have a scientific name for him? I'm very interested in them.
I keep G. gongylodes, P. paradoxa, H. membranacea, P. wahlbergii, E. tiaratum and Asceles sp. myself so I reckon some of those little guys would fit right into my invert passion

 

[Deroplatys]

Nice little collection you have there, especially the violins, would love to get some but its all the extra heating and lighting involved with that sp, anyway the fern insect a Oreophoetes peruana

 

[Miss Wiggle]

awesome pictures, i nominate the last one for POTM be nice to see something different in the gallery!!

 

[Deroplatys]

Thank you, would be nice if she wins coincidently, just died
There was an invertebrate show last sunday which i got her and a male for £25, which is a reasonable price for armoured ground crickets, and typicly im peed off and upset that she died within 5 days
Where is the POTM section?
Would be nice to look at the others photos

 

[Miss Wiggle]

it's run as a pinned topic at the top of the page, rules etc are all up there. you'll need someone to second the nomination to enter, if that happens then put a post up in the pinned topic linking to this and keep your fingers crossed while people vote!

 

[Deroplatys]

Ta, similar thing on another forum im on

 

[guppy fan]

I'll secont the ptom nomination. I love insects too, but I have never kept them. Do they get attached to thier owners, or are they more like fish.

 

[Deroplatys]

Thx, you get attached to the inverts but not really visa versa, except when the atlas beetles tarsi get hooked on your skin

 

[TylerFerretLord]

Wow, I love arthropods.

Do you have any links to sites about caring for them? I would love to get into this. Especially the beetles.

Also, how do you keep the atlas beetles from flying away (along with anything else in your collection with wings)?

 

[Deroplatys]

I had thought that the atlas beetles were too bulky to fly, untill my dads one was flying around his tank, so if i ever take mine out again i`ll have the trusty net at my side lol
The katydid can fly like a bird (that big green grasshopper thing), so i never took her outside, and for a hell of a lot of mantids the females cant fly as thier wings are too small for thier bulk, i could post a few links to invert forums if im allowed, am i?

 

[TylerFerretLord]

You are not supposed to advertise competing sites, but this is a fish forum, not an invert forum, so I don't know. Can you just PM me them?

Thanks.

Oh, and is that a very small orchid mantis or a very large fly?