Tarantula Haven Updates

[@khallfour]

The rubber duckys are so cute!

[@tarantulacollective]

Congratulations on the babies! I just found my Cubaris sp Rubber Ducky colony has a lot of young as well!

[@Lsurah]

I've always thought that the assassin bugs faces look like they're wearing a teeny plague doctor masks lol. they're so inquisitive and active! Ruthless little buggers!

[@loispadgett6306]

Love those isopods soo cute. Glad to see they are doing well. Thank you for showing them to us. GOD BLESS 🕷💖🕷💖🕷💖

[@angielovesowls]

Super nice collection Alex ! Thanks so much for sharing.

[@debbiemcclure2874]

I once Googled where to find a stuffed yellow duck and the rubber ducky isopods came up. I thought I will get these instead of the stuffed animal until I saw the price lmbo. I said, the stuffed duck will do just fine🤣. My granddaughter absolutely loves ducks. Great collection Alex. Tyfs God bless you

[@zulemazahir666]

Cool update Alex, glad all your isopods are doing well and breeding. It can be extremely anxiety inducing, trying to make sure something newer and expensive gets cared for correctly etc.

[@dernomade2675]

Nice little detail playing a Cantina Band remix while wearing a Mandalorian T-Shirt ✌🏻

[@gavsTarantulas]

Great video Alex I love how clumsy the assassins bugs are when feeding

[@MOONOVERMIAMI]

Hello great video update Alex

[@MrTQuillen]

Great channel! Love your videos!

[@dldarby82]

Nature's Exquisite Creatures one of my favorite vendors. Lillie is awesome. As a bonus: I live in San Antonio, so I don't even have to pay shipping.

[@FinisP]

Awesome video and so interesting! Now I want some assassin bugs! First time I saw them was on Dark Den too.

[@lauriefulk3812]

Dave's Little Beasties has assassin bugs I believe, I think he does pretty good (in my opinion)and his wife is the "Camera Lady". l love his channel also. I love them isopods they are so cute. Good Luck on your new additions.

[@great-grandmakirk8828]

I like these bugs and always watched them on the Dark Den, I’m glad u got some❤️👵🏻👍🏻

[@dldarby82]

I wish I had known you were looking for horrida. I have a friend in CA that's always giving people some, because his colony has grown out of control. I think he has 2 of those 50 gallon storage bins full of cork bark, and they are everywhere.

[@yootoobrube]

Put me in touch! They ARE really hard to find.

[@dldarby82]

@@yootoobrube join FB group "USA Beetles only". I'll get you in touch with him.

[@yootoobrube]

@@dldarby82 On it. My request is pending.

[@dldarby82]

Hey Alex, if you want to boost your reproduction rates with the assassin bugs, try keeping a small corner of the substrate slightly damp. The females tend to lay eggs in damp soil, even though their husbandry says to keep them bone dry. I rehoused mine into a 12×12×12 Reptizoo enclosure. It has a sliding lid, so they don't escape. I have a small 8oz deli cup in there was some peat and compost, and I keep just that deli cup slightly damp.

[@victoriareffin2429]

I’m obsessed with isopods! I only got some for my Bioactive spider tanks, and now I have more variety’s of isopods than spiders because I just can’t stop buying them!😂 I’m dying for some magic potion and rubber duckies but they’re sooooo expensive here in the UK!

[@springmillexotics7871]

Sounds like your wife is pretty awesome! Rubber Ducky Isopods as a gift would be awesome!

[@ChantalsCritters]

Great update video.

[@blizzardschildrenc6225]

For better chances in breeding in horrid assasin bugs you should try and place a humid box (can be any container tbh ) cause they like to lay eggs in humid places

[@bobbibuttons8730]

I don’t know what it is about the assassin bugs that give me the heebie jeebies. It may be because when I was a young 20 something female doing a world tour and was coming to the end in Costa Rica before moving on to the US and then home to Scotland managed to get bit by an assassin bug and ended up extremly ill when I got home (fortunately) with Chagas’ disease. I don’t know if the bugs kept as “pets” carry the parasite but be Uber careful about notes just in case I’m in love with your wee duck isopod, they are as cute as get out.

[@colostomybaguette6122]

You should get some egyptian predatory beetles.

[@The-Spider-King]

My psytalla horrida have done lots of cannibalising too. I had 13 and am down to 7. They just need constant food 😑

[@JustAWalkingFish]

I'm thinking ab getting some cubaris species as well. Where'd you find the limestone rock? And is that a better option than mixing limestone w the substrate?

[@arbokMelagrana]

Poor crickets, always at the end of the alimentary chain in this world haha

[@trueaussieray9093]

Sorry mate but i don't feel your connection with the Slater beetles (isopods) we have them in Plague portion here in Australia thay are pest hear. $75 for a dozen??? Hell no....

[@rebelbaron7003]

Yeah sorry,but I find all these bugs quite lacking in appeal except for on "Monster Bug Wars" where they get eaten and physically disembowled by Preying Mantises. Alex......please no @!#$%&( ant videos !!!!! Don't be like Clint who's now doing bird videos.