How to Set Up a Pet Desert Beetles Tank Part 2

This is Part 2 about making a tank for your pet desert beetles and we also also discuss communal desert beetles tanks with scorpions and velvet ants. Pesticide exposure is a major theme in this video and though there is nothing more beautiful than a planted terrarium or desert vivarium that includes desert beetles moving around in it, we have to be careful to know the history of the plants and produce/food we add into our tanks.

To watch part 1 first, please click the link below.

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(Don't worry. I haven't forgotten to pick random winners for the last couple videos. Already used the random comment picker to choose them on video but will post that in a separate upload early this coming week. The last few videos were so long that placing another 5 minutes of summer 2020 contest stuff in them would be counter-productive in the longterm viewership of the video.)

In this new video we review the following topics per these timestamps and within these I drop in some unlisted clips of various desert beetle species along the way.

00:00 Introduction, Morning Coffee, Tank Cleaning, Feeding bite-sized foods, substrate density
04:22 Feed the beetles! Velvet ant steals the show
05:21 Why are my beetles on their backs twitching? Plants & Pesticides, Grocery Produce
09:00 Eleodes tricostata and Eleodes goryi, Organic Produce vs Non organic Safety
10:57 Pesticide residues can last for years
15:43 Purchasing plants for your tank and cycling them. Systemic pesticides. Topical Insecticides
17:29 Communal tank of Desert Beetles and Velvet Ants. Screened lid. Heat lamps. Safety
19:37 Humidity and Adding Water to your tank, Hydration through eating juicy foods
22:20 Eggs, Larvae and Pupae of Desert Beetles, Pie Dish Beetle life cycle
26:37 Tank Temperature, Close ups of various desert beetle species in the new tank
Cryptoglossa muricata, Asbolus laevis smooth death feigning beetle, Phleodes ironclad beetles, Eleodes armata darkling beetle, blue death feigning beetle Asbolus verrucosus
28:57 Desert Hairy Hadrurus arizonensis and Dune Scorpion Smeringerus mesaensis Communal Bioactive Tank with blue death feigning beetles and other desert beetles Clean up Crew
33:06 Communal Set Ups with Velvet Ants and Desert Beetles
34:34 Beetle Jelly Cups, how to use them
39:24 Time Lapse Video of desert beetle tank with velvet ants

One of a million good links about organic pesticides and how they can affect just a few pollinating insects can be found here. Remember why they put pesticides on the foods grown for us to eat in the first place, whether organic pesticides or not. It's to deter insects. And also, do you really think farms are always perfectly following the instructions for application? The insect is the enemy. In my experience, desert beetles and possibly millipedes are especially sensitive to pesticides.

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