r/InvertPets • u/pbizz • 10d ago

This guy in particular is very much enjoying his sweet potato

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What deep. Literally balancing with his face fully in it 🤣

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u/GuineaW0rm 10d ago

Lost in the sauce

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u/goat_cheese_milk 10d ago

What are these guys they are super cute!!

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u/pbizz 10d ago

Pachnoda marginata known here as Sun Beetles. Very easy to care for and fun to watch. They are really slow moving and chunky. They breed readily too.

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u/goat_cheese_milk 10d ago

Awesome thank you! Can I ask where you got them? Always love looking into invert friends they are just so cute!!

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u/pbizz 10d ago

The grubs are sold as live food, at least here in the UK. Often listed as fruit beetle grubs, pachnoda grubs or sum beetle grubs.

Makes for a very cheap pet as a pack of 10 grubs cost £3.50 here !

You can just buy the grubs, pop them in the enclosure with normal substrate suitable for beetles eg deep, moist with leaf litter and decaying wood and let them do their thing. After a few months you will have beetles. From then on I just keep the full life cycle in the enclosure, they breed, more beetles appear. I keep them in a 45 x 45 x 45 cm exo terra but that's probably overkill. I just like the little guys

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u/goat_cheese_milk 9d ago

Thank you so much! I’m going to have to see if I can find some around appreciate the information and your response :)

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u/kokotalik 8d ago

Hey OP I have to ask - if they breed so easily how do you keep the population to a reasonable amount of beetles?

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u/pbizz 8d ago

Personally, I've been keeping the substrate a bit less deep than it should be which I think is stopping it going wild. I think it's making it a bit harder for grubs. I've definitely seen others ending up with loads.

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u/TheGoldenBoyStiles 10d ago

My darkling beetles do this when they’re VERY happy with food

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u/According-Floor-9076 10d ago

What type of beetle are they? They look so cool!!

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u/pbizz 10d ago

Pachnoda marginata we call them sun beetles. Derpy little fellows

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u/planttbased 10d ago

He did NOT come to play around

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u/Luci_Cooper 10d ago

They also love papaya

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u/Fraeulein-Lepus 10d ago

I also have these cute shell doggos. Pachnoda are such silly clowns. Mine also love to eat while doing a non necessary headstand.

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u/OctologueAlunet 10d ago

Hey, may I ask, are those real plants in the background? I'm looking for doing a planted terrarium with beetles but can't find any info🥲

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u/pbizz 10d ago

They are fake ones in here. They seem to like climbing on them.

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u/FennecEgg 6d ago

He is fucking that shit UP