It Fell From The SKY!

[@DonkersDilatata]

the small creatures are cyclops strenuus, that molt is from a mosquito and the waterbeetle dytiscus marginalis is a verry big predator, their larva are even bigger predators

[@mustangmckraken1150]

Is it a mosquito molt or is it a dragonfly molt? Not sure if there's even dragonfly in that part of Croatia, but the ones we have look like that. Our mosquitoes don't get that big in the midwest, though.

[@lukep2601]

@@mustangmckraken1150 Dragonflies occur on every continent (besides Antarctica) so there are probably some native Croatian species. I agree that its probably a mosquito larvae molt though - dragonfly nymphs don't have the same slender bodyplan as adults and tend to be much stouter/fatter. They also have a very well-defined head, jaws, thorax, and legs in every stage. The molt in the video has the slender abdomen and rounded, hairy thorax (without visible legs) thats characteristic of mosquito larvae.

[@thomasthemetriacanthosauru7030]

BRUH THE GREAT DIVING BEETLE IS A BEAST. Its the second largest living species of predaceous diving beetle

[@zekejeager2451]

lol nerd

[@Tekillyah]

@@zekejeager2451 No, you.

[@preparedgalaxy872]

Nice nerd

[@kamiraanddie12394]

@@zekejeager2451 better to be a nerd than a normie

[@cristalwaschbuger5284]

Cool

[@jdawg7230]

From my previous experiences with keeping diving beetles, putting them from a dry enclosure to a water filled tank causes them to float like this sometimes. I always let mine go in the water themselves so they don't float. The beetle could have hurt itself from the fall as well when you found it.

[@thecataclyst1]

May I ask if you bought the diving beetle? If you, can you give me some website that sells this things.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

"she ate the egg sac" you could say that was an eggscellent meal for the tarantula

[@michaelpocci1876]

Dear Supreme Leader, how are you?

[@estel5335]

That was an egg-ceptional joke. Those egg puns are eggs-actly my kind of humor.

[@mizukiaurora6944]

I heard a similar pun when I played on eggs-box

[@estel5335]

Let's hope, these golden comments won't get egg-nored!

[@adriannabcustomfurniture]

Y'all are egg-tremely hilarious

[@ShayTheBean]

I am so, so excited and happy to see a Great Diving Beetle! My mom found a male one last March but sadly he died in the summer. He had suction cup feet in the front for holding onto the female during mating! He was brown. Something great about them is they don't need a filter for their aquarium! Also they have a nasty, venomous bite, so watch out for that. It liquifies the innards of the small fish, insects, mealworms, whatever you feed it! They eat dried bloodworms too but we couldn't find the right ones. Lots of info on Google! Also she will want to be able to come out of the water and sit on something sometimes. They store air under their wings so they can dive for a long time, and they get the air by sticking their bum out of the water and hanging there, teehee 🤭 it's so cute. Most of what we learned was trial and error. Anyway, I hope you see this and that it helps you in some way! We named our beetle Shrek, maybe yours can be Fiona.

[@moldycreamcheese2317]

Beetles are underrated

[@jdawg7230]

I agree. They make very awesome pets.

[@MissaPality]

Hard-headed at times.

[@mustangmckraken1150]

I also love combing through water looking for microorganisms, it's fun to watch.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

What do you call a nervous beetle? _A jitterbug_

[@estel5335]

What do you call an egg who likes to go on safari? An eggs-plorer...

[@carms1065]

Ba-dum psh

[@azo1609]

Can we take a moment to praise this cut at 5:25

[@DemonicEmpowerment]

Crispy as always.

[@S4B3R117]

Since you have your own garden now, you could build a small pond and stock it with native species and have your own little piece of nature

[@Life_of_Lissy]

Hey petko! Those little jumpy bugs in the water are copepods called cyclops! They are commly fed to small fish and shrimp as live food in aquariums :) also I believe the molt is a mosquito (sauce: I live in Florida lol)

[@nat2nathan2005]

I used to catch these from a local pond here in the UK when I was a kid and keep them in an aquarium. Maaajor nostalgia! They're such a beautiful beetle up close, really rich colours, and so fast and graceful when they're in the water. Their larvae on the other hand are completely TERRIFYING. Also, don't let her bite you. It HURTS.

[@HeilielPrince]

Diving beetles are so cool. And your jump cuts are so freaking seamless! Great job

[@wtc5198]

I've kept dytiscus and they're really easy to keep. Be sure to have a land part and you can feed them roaches. Pozdrav from serbia!

[@mylife-23]

You need to put in sticks for her to grab. I had to cuz my beetle didn't dive till I put the sticks in.

[@Hannaarrhh]

After playing Animal Crossing, I can confirm this is indeed a diving beetle.

[@mayoralykah]

I absolutely hate those!!!

[@jud7351]

@@mayoralykah I used to raise those in real life when I was 12 13 years old. They are ferocious predators I was actually fearing them after I saw what they could do to preys xD

[@kathytran1288]

Lol

[@mayoralykah]

@@jud7351 Wow that’s crazy! I’m actually glad that we don’t have them in our area! I only encountered diving beetles in Animal Crossing and they’re such a pain in the ass! I was fishing for a snapping turtle but these bugs just kept spawning every where!!

[@jud7351]

@@mayoralykah I could give them anything to eat, they were tearing food apart lol

[@junchankai8307]

Guess the beetle was "SKYDIVING" 🤣 😂 😆 😃 🙂 😐 Imma go hide in my burrow now

[@glenn5246]

I love that you had the footage from the front of the house hahaha

[@tracybowling97]

Of course I loved this episode. It featured a field trip. I am a sucker for field trips!!!

[@andrewrichards9513]

Even when it's not spiders and tarantulas I still love watching, awesome content.

[@Sch0lli]

In my experience it is pretty important to put branches into the aquarium, because they definitely need something to hold onto while being on the surface. Believe it or not, the breeding process seems pretty manageable actually. I only had bigger larva, which started to prey on fish, frogs or softer shelled insects, but basically anything I offered them. Once they stop feeding and wander around the tank without a clear goal (they are huge at this point), you have to take them out and put them in fairly wet substrate where they will pupate. Larva and the beetles themselves are cannibalistic, so should you actually start a fun breeding project, watch out for that. The adults feed on absolutely everything, i mostly offered Grasshoppers, but anything will do really. Greetings from germany :)

[@lonnieashby4767]

How fun! Bro. You took me back to my childhood when I was so fasinated by everything aquatic. Thank you for this video. Good luck with her. Can't wait to see another video of her.😊👍

[@S4B3R117]

Are you going to do any cool green paint highlights in that room like the other dark dens? It adds a lot of your character to the place :)

[@leichenkocher]

I once saw what must have been thousands of these on a beach in Romania, they were all swimming into the sea thinking it was a lake or something.Also they fly with their abdomens vetical to the ground, kinda like with a jetpack, very spooky.

[@ChaniLB520]

Super cool! You’ve got a bunch of copepod microcrustaceans and the molt from a phantom midge larva I think.

[@Lisa-kp6wn]

Every other person would go "ew, a bug" after seeing it crash into the wall. But not you; you give it a home, you love and support it. That makes me emotional🥺🙌❤.

[@lawrencecooks798]

The teleport was on point...

[@bluemorpho7346]

Petko you may want to get a sponge filter for the tub so the water doesn't become stagnant also this type of beetle is very attracted to lights so a lid of some sort is a must.

[@thomasnesmith5426]

The really small critter on the glass looks like a Copepod. Very common microbe in pond water and aquariums.

[@anubis20049999]

Petko on his way from filming spiders and others arthropods, lizards, and rodents. Now he is on his was to building terrarium enclosures for the microscopic creatures. Introducing The Micro Dark Den!😂

[@kandihinshaw1870]

The long skinny transparent thing you saw that looks like the mold of a mosquito larvae

[@yusefmclean4651]

it actually looks just like the shell of a diving beetle larval form

[@derpyguy]

those tiny water bugs are copepods, and every one you filmed was carrying a load of eggs so expect plenty more

[@goddamnilovemetal8120]

I thought I was going mad because I thought they were copepods as well. They're something I associate much more with marine environments for some reason

[@_Horilka]

You should add the glass and 3D pieces to your store, I would love to set up your design

[@Grubenkobold]

I'ld recommend you don't bother with big filtration systems. Hang on back (or backpack-) filters work really fine with small(-ish) aquariums. They dont take up any actual space in the aquarium and need less maintenance than big outside systems (also less expensive).

[@shansins359]

That was a hell of a thump! I would have freaked out with a big bug enough to hit that hard! Yet I own large tarantulas lol. Bugs are different though.. ugh!

[@senseipokomoko]

Great content! I enjoyed the foraging for live stuff

[@juanpablorodriguez7884]

10:07 i think that's a nymph. A future dragonfly

[@AMGamingOnline]

Those little guys are tiger pods but idk or it could be some kind of pod which are very good to have as food source

[@AestheticAbe]

@Jartopia would probably know what those are. I'm assuming there will be forms of copepods in that tub.

[@TBreezy17]

This beetle proved all the other beetles wrong when they said ‘You will never make it into the Dark Den’

[@greenlizardballs]

Hahahaha. That security camera footage. If that's not destiny I don't know what is. 😂

[@christineschwericke9803]

Like all the different organisms in the water!

[@waspbr]

Petko needs some boots.

[@tonibeba8911]

Those are Waterbeetles, i don´t know the species but in the lake in our area in Germany there are a lot of them. They are superfast underwater, didn´t know they can fly tho.

[@Mister_Matthew]

Those little bug dudes are called Copepod

[@goddamnilovemetal8120]

Googled the species and found it it's super common in Wales! I had no idea and now I need to go and catch a few

[@MOONOVERMIAMI]

hello great video petcko maybe a Dragon fly molt 😂😂

[@mart9214]

I often caught them as a child, since internet wasnt a big thing then I found out they can bite really hard the painful way.

[@Heuteja]

"...apple every Monday and Friday" good advice! But an apple a day would be much better!!! ; )

[@michellemorningstar880]

Wow that is so cool beetle not sure if i would touch it or even pick it up i am scare of bugs lol thanks so very much pretty cool ..

[@chantinafaye]

So obsessed with the time jumps☺️

[@awesomeanimalswithalishav5874]

Microscopic life is always so interesting, as are beetles. I never get tired of small microsystems. Check out Life in Jars' channel for help identifying creatures.

[@chaotic_cryptid]

You should check out Life in Jars!! You’ve got some copepods in there!!

[@eloifougerat5271]

Ahhhh mosuito larvae!! 😬😬😬

[@aironmaryukdawan8688]

@10:33 thats a wriggler, a larva of mosquitoes.

[@tLxInfamous]

man that transition was so clean.

[@C.S.M.Hageroth]

At 10:07 is a mosquito exuvia. Don't get bitten. :D Looking forward to the biotope aquarium.

[@CricketsMa]

Pretty sneaky way to get free animals! It will be interesting to see how she does. Will she eat the little bugs in there with her, or will you need to go tadpole hunting?

[@1spoiledbabygirl]

What a neat looking beetle!! (Never thought I would be saying that haha!) I do love the colors though. The green/gold are the colors of my high school I went to. I'm actually wearing one of the shirts from my high school today cause I came across it earlier this week in some storage I was going through, then this video with a green/gold beetle! What's up with all this green/gold stuff around me? Ok sorry, enough of my random thoughts that are probably only 'cool' to me. LOL Have a great week everyone!

[@LethalBacon479]

Those little guys are called Cyclops.

[@charliegonzales1201]

I thought the beetle will go with the vampire crabs enclosure because there's land, water, vegetation and coexist with each other

[@jessm3306]

And then the dark den gets infested by mosquitoes.

[@edgufler1122]

Enjoyed the video very much. You need to get some Bettas and breed them. They are quite interesting.

[@30somethingnothing]

Those tiny organisms are copepods with eggs! How exciting!

[@dhgodzilla1]

Be careful of Shore Flies, Fungus Gnats & Root Aphids that could hatch from that Swamp Water. They can live in your House Plants & Substrate in your Cages.

[@allydrawsthings]

ahhh there are probably tardigrades in there!! :)

[@Trish150655]

I always love & look forward to your videos! Thanks for always having great content! Much love from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@tyfox8900]

brushes probs for tarantulas and moving them maybe?

[@SkarGig]

Your outdoor random videos were how I found the channel lol I think it was spider hunting on your honeymoon actually.

[@SaraJean85]

Those are female little bugs I forgot the name.. water fleas. And the Beatle needs a floating something to hide and rest on

[@Spider.vintage]

I send bushes to everyone..if you like me you use them put them down and can never find them again..great video dude

[@charliemum]

I love watching your uploads I never know what I am going to see 👀 .

[@Galdrad]

The little fellas at 9:27 are copepods I think. Crustaceans.

[@evildragon196]

10:16 i think mosquito larva or dragonfly larva

[@coldcountess]

It looks like a Dragonfly !

[@TreeWolfie0512]

That good your not keep her forever. But hopefully not to long. She form the wild. Should give her freedom.

[@mogwaig8556]

I did this sort of thing a few years ago and noticed i had lots of mosquito larvae and didnt feel too good about keeping them. i was searching for tadpoles.

[@casitube22]

Very interesting video! I like different content every once in a while but def love the feeding videos most! Cant wait until Friday!!!!

[@Myth85]

Nice editing!

[@warumsindalenicksweg]

Hey Petko. Bevore you run around, filming how you catch and keep an Argyroneta aquatica ("diving bell spider") Those spider are highly endangered and in many many countries it's absolut forbidden to catch and keep this spiders. I don't know for Croatia, but here in Switzerland it would be an veeeeery expensive KZbinvideo ;). An even when it's legal in Croatia.... think about your influence! How many would copycat that and start searching for this Spider. Please, let those higly endangered and Spider in the nature. Greetings

[@sokkolof]

Wow really love the thumbnail!

[@tequon100]

2:32 she like🦵🏿”YeEeA dOnT tOuCh Me” 👁👅👁

[@wattan0214]

I can't speak English, so I have no idea what I'm saying, but I'm always entertained. I also want to live with so many creatures.

[@shishilanpasalan4144]

Diving beetle literally dived from the sky

[@vallhallamedia3161]

Be sure to add some dry land for the beetle

[@zulkaangie7305]

The clear transparent tadpole looking one is mosquito 🦟 larva

[@potse6151]

start a shrimp tank theyre cool many diff color and patterns

[@TheVenomation]

Have you considered setting up a decent aquarium? would like to some aquatic species in the dark den

[@StickyRig]

No offense but did you watch the vid 😂

[@TheVenomation]

@@StickyRig thats why i asked?

[@StickyRig]

@@TheVenomation well if you had, you’d know Petko said he was gonna setup an official aquarium for other small creatures to coincide with the dysticus

[@thewave5536]

EPIC

[@jjgamerfn7634]

Can I know what happened to your scorpions Kinda miss them

[@kimbee53meierjie83]

Make sure you add a cover because it will literally blast out of the container.

[@DeadEyeDe123]

Looks like some sort of mosquito larvae the transparent one mate

[@mishaacheck8852]

Hi! What about keeping triops? 😁 That would be great, right? 😁

[@amypalladino2584]

Those little creatures are called cyclops and if you look close enough to can see they have eggs

[@snakeplisskin8696]

Those things will bite the hell out of you. Trust me.

[@michaelpocci1876]

10:03 These guys are called (in Slovakia) Cyclopes and that is actually a mother carrying eggsac they live mostly in lake-ish waters feasting mostly on animal plancton.

[@Smdove]

The molt looked like a dragon fly to me

[@tomaszuffa653]

9:40 Copepods

[@missjackson7645]

I seen a stag beetle when I visited London! 😱 was amazing! Beetles are kind of underrated 🤣

[@2ndNightingale]

those "wing covers" have a name: 'ELYTRA', i may sound pedantic, but it is what it is, hard to pronounce.

[@natzredangelmillward6280]

That's pretty cool an you got tadpoles correct :)