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[00:00:00]Let me show you what we got here. I didn't mean to start it quite at that time. That's what happened. So, let's zoom in here and see what we can see. Well, everybody, hopefully I can get the chat working.

[00:00:20]I want to make sure everybody can hear me before I get too far.

[00:00:25]So, uh I'll give that a second.

[00:01:00]Hey, I see Taylor is here. Um, green Jedi monkey is here. Um, can everybody hear?

[00:01:10]Green Jedi monkey. Sorry, I had to step out of the room for a second, but uh, I wanted to make sure people were there, but it looks like people there. So, I see Skunky and Taylor and Green Jedi Monkey. Those are the ones that I see. It looks like we're here. So what happened is I just had a presentation and uh with a few critters. It was a pretty short presentation about an hour.

[00:01:35]U so it wasn't you know a huge number of critters but it was was fun. And I was just going to unpack this. The theme was animal superpowers and we talked about the superpowers of blue death feigning beetles um and of the ironclad beetle, the diabolical ironclad beetle. You can see uh three representatives of the diabolical ironclad beetle and one blueing beetle. Um how's it going? Well, it's going pretty well. I was sick last week, all of last week and for about 10 days really. I was quite sick. So, I was going to do a live stream last week and get there because of that, but I'm doing better today. I might have a coughing foot or two, but I'm doing so much better. So, there's Ray. Welcome, Ray.

[00:02:21]So, this is a diabolical ironclad beetle. This is the Hellburnt um phenotypical variation. Has those kind of bits on the uh terminal end of the abdomen there and around. So, they have that been given the additional title of Hellburnt. These are amazingly resilient and have been known to withstand the pressure of 39,000 times their own weight.

[00:02:50]Their exoskeleton is put together in such a way that it's kind of interlocks rather like jigsaw puzzle and then if gets damaged it produces a sort of natural glue that reattaches those bits of the exoskeleton together which is part of what makes it extremely resilient. So, I got these from Bugs in Cyerspace. I've had them for quite a while now. It's probably been I don't know over a year since I've had these Hell burnt diabolical iron head beetles. And then I think this one is just the normal type. The one here on the left is the normal type. Um, which I probably have had longer than that. I think so.

[00:03:30]Yeah, that glue would be pretty useful.

[00:03:31]Hungry Jedi. So, how's everybody in the chat doing? So, I I was able to showcase the fact that they engaged intosis, which they're doing now. Well, the one on the left not doing a great job, but they're looking pretty pretty dead.

[00:03:47]And then, I zupa superhero vids helped me get into farming isopods.

[00:03:55]Enjoy your content. Fantastic. Love it.

[00:03:57]So, there's one definitely showing that it's not dead. Two of them have shown that so far, but they're they're all very much alive, just uh doing their thing. And here's the blue death fainting beetle.

[00:04:08]I'm going to come back. Uh we'll start with another creature as I put these back.

[00:04:24]My idea is to replace the one I'm putting away with something else immediately so that you don't have to sit and stare at just black background and blank background should say. There's my friend there.

[00:04:38]I'll get this blue death fighting beetle but I can be communal.

[00:04:43]So, oh, Green Jedi is going to use the bin of the dairy cows to upgrade bumblebee millipedes. Fantastic. Been enjoying having uh bumblebee millipedes again.

[00:04:56]They've been a while. I think I got my first ones in around 2015. Kept them for many generations and then they sort of crashed when I moved them to a new enclosure. So, that was sad. But I just got some of the John Ken Penacamp locality from Tennyson which are larger and more brightly colored than the old hobby stop.

[00:05:24]So I'm excited to work with those.

[00:05:26]That'll be fun. Here is a fairly large but still not fulls size male porcelia huffman zi orange.

[00:05:40]Got this stock from Tennyson too.

[00:05:42]Actually founding stock for my colony. This is this one was probably born here but uh I've got quite a few babies of various generations and not here.

[00:06:00]Okay, there's chat. Welcome, chat.

[00:06:02]And there's Laura Taylor. Welcome as well. So, greensh got yours in California. You collected in Florida.

[00:06:07]That's where I got my first individuals.

[00:06:09]Collected in Miami Beach. Um I think I collected about four of them as long and along with a bunch of uh scarlet millipedes.

[00:06:19]Uh the first millipedes that I collected and then subsequently bred.

[00:06:24]All right.

[00:06:29]So Laura Taylor, some of these monsters, the Huffmani, I wish I could distribute them outside of the state. I cannot. I do not have a permit to distribute porcelain at all out of the state. But if I did, I would certainly be happy to make that a possibility for you or make that a reality, I should say, for you.

[00:06:55]But I am unable to do so. Very sad.

[00:06:59]Okay, let me put this Huffman Z guy away and and show you what's coming next.

[00:07:06]I'm going to move this water dish here and move the camera a little bit and we'll see what we got next.

[00:07:19]There he is.

[00:07:22]I just kick. Okay. All right. This is my polipendra polymorpha.

[00:07:29]This one is from bugs in cyerspace.

[00:07:34]This uh is one of the uh it's from an Arizona.

[00:07:40]I'm not sure exactly where in Arizona this one was collected, but it's it's in Arizona.

[00:07:48]Ah, green jetty monkey. I'm glad that that helps. Yeah, that the heat is really really seems to be key. They always do they always seem to do better when you give them heat. And the ones when I moved them into a new enclosure, they did have heat. I'm not sure what happened there, but um because I had them for like basically 10 years, generation after generation, two um groups of them, one somebody sent me some freebies when I got something else like vineg baby captive bed vinegar runes years ago. So it was probably just one or two years after I got that initial stock which was breeding and then they added the more and they were breeding and it worked well for some years and all a sudden it didn't. I don't know why but um these seem to be doing well so far the ones that I got from Tennyson.

[00:08:35]So Francisco sure you already mentioned this but your website contact order form seems to be broken. Oh darn it. I'm going to need to check out what's going on again.

[00:08:52]And I should put the hide back. This this little guy is getting frustrated.

[00:08:56]There's the normal hide is not there.

[00:08:59]And put the lid on and get something else out to put away. Before I do that, Let's see.

[00:09:22]I do like everybody's likes and that's fine. I do.

[00:09:28]Here's my dang mushi.

[00:09:32]One of them. I have a couple. I I should put the other one down, too. I got my other one right there.

[00:09:43]want to me zoom out a little bit.

[00:09:46]I brought one of those to the presentation as well.

[00:09:52]I really enjoy them. Uh, see, they're anatomically pretty accurate, which I like. I mean this color maybe not so much but otherwise and in fact this notch that enables them to congoate fully with this little structure here are not very uh anatomic accurate but you can look the pleopods and say yeah that's a male which isn't bad. Um that one would also be a male. It's got writing in the area where it wouldn't really have writing, of course, but uh they're pretty cool and they allow me to discuss um how ice pods conglate and so on and you snap them together and they stay congated, which I love. So, these are cool. And I learned recently dangushi is the Japanese word for ice pod or a Japanese word for ice pod. There are probably others. Even the omatidia look pretty pretty reasonably accurate. Um, dango is a kind of little round dumpling thing, rice dumpling, I guess. And mushing means bug. So, dumpling bug because they resemble the round um round conglated uh I mean the congreated ice pods resemble the the round dumplings, which is pretty cool. Sorry, walked right into the camera. Okay.

[00:11:20]that guy there and grabbing this other thing here.

[00:11:30]This is one of my spirus species one globular millipede.

[00:11:36]So it looks like either a young adult or maybe future one. Not sure.

[00:11:42]Um yeah, I do love the models. There's a tickle girl. There's our Taylor. So, Francisco, I was I didn't finish my thought. You can send me a message on Instagram, an instant message on Instagram. Just DM me and I will work with you there for the time being until I can get my website fixed. That should help.

[00:12:01]So, Spirus species one. I've kept this species for years. Got my initial stock from Bugs in Cyerspace. We had several other people send me stock. I got some from who's my most recent one? I think it was Jacob of Collie and Culture sent me some little ones. So, I've raised them from little babies to adults several times. Never actually bred them, which is a little weird. I've bred several spee not these so far. I mean, there might be babies now. I'm not sure.

[00:12:27]But they're a fun one.

[00:12:34]I broke my rule. I was supposed to go get something else.

[00:12:37]I did this.

[00:12:56]That water just got really muddy. I'm going to put um these guys over here. Hopefully little pauses in between creatures is not too infuriating. Um this is one of my older tarantula cribs enclosures. One of my originals got original slider cribs.

[00:13:19]I I need to clean out this water dish.

[00:13:21]I'm going to do that right now cuz got pretty muddy.

[00:13:26]Yeah, let's see. dose of here. Um, so looking at the lizards, um, isopod models. Somebody sent me the blue one. I think it's blue. Might be purple.

[00:13:41]Color vision. Um, a while ago and I can't remember to be honest. I can't remember where either one comes from at this point.

[00:13:49]It's been a while. I've had them both for years and not I didn't get them both at the same time, but I've had them both for years and I no longer recall where I got them, but you can look up dangosi um and find pretty cool um conglabating isopod models like this. They're I think they're making a comeback. For a while it was hard to find them. I think it's easier now. So there the water dish is all clean.

[00:14:21]And this is my friend, my a my adult Asian forest scorpion. I have a couple of these. This is my adult. I have a younger one, too. Just wanted to give you a little peek. So this is my adult here.

[00:14:37]Want to get a good good look at it.

[00:14:41]This one time one, welcome terrarium kid rubber ducky ice pods. Congrats on the babies. We're going to do a little bit of of fluoresence here. Here we go. Ready?

[00:15:00]Whoa.

[00:15:01]That never gets old. It's It's funny because I've said that before and today one of my oldest kids, not my oldest kids, one of my younger kids actually said that never gets old. We went out in the desert and did this. You can find scorpions in a lot of areas in our state and they went and did this in the desert. So, the southern part of the state not too long ago, a few years ago, and kid was remembering that and that was it was kind of fun. So, Asian forest scorpion. So, SOF cast one, how often you defeat ice pods? Totally depends on a lot of factors. How many ice pots you have, population density, um the substrate composition, how recently you replace the substrate, the all kinds of things like that. I tend to feed my ice pods once or twice a week. Um that's about what I do, but it totally depends. Some ice buds I'll feed more often.

[00:15:58]Just depends on what's going on. I think if you have lots of leaf litter in your enclosure, you can get away with feeding them less often, too. And you should have lots of leaf litter in the enclosure all the time if you can. If you forget uh or if you get behind and and run out of leaf litter, they're going to need more food. But it's also just best practice to keep as much leaf litter in the enclosure as you can.

[00:16:26]Couple inches of it at least. More is better.

[00:16:31]Then they'll always have something to snack on.

[00:16:34]Looks like your water dish is going to need to be full filled up, too. This is my diamond diadema.

[00:16:42]Um my one of my tailless whip scorpions.

[00:16:46]I'm hoping this one will be a father soon. The water dish looks like it got totally knocked over during the travel.

[00:16:53]Not surprising. Fill that up.

[00:17:01]drove about 40 minutes or so to get them to the place where I was doing the presentation and I think I had refilled the water before that. But anyway, do scorpions do that to see each other better? Zupar Hero is asking and insects see a lot of UV color, right? Um, a lot of insects do see UB and a lot of other arthropods like scorpions do, birds do, and many birds at least and many reptiles do as well. Many other reptiles, I guess I should say, um, can see UV. It is thought that scorpions can indeed they're very sensitive to UV light in terms of being able to pick it up. And so when the moon light the reflected sunlight has some UV in it and that enables them to see better something like that. I believe that's how it goes.

[00:17:56]Um so hopefully that answers your question. Superhero Laura Taylor. You think they realize they're glowing? Um that seems to be the the thing. They they do react to it.

[00:18:09]They can at least see the other scorpions doing it from my understanding. What is the chat about good, bad, or ugly with keeping them under a black light? Keeping them under a black light 24/7 is probably a bad idea. It tends to be frowned upon for younger scorpions. It's probably they're probably more sensitive to it than the adults and probably hurt them quite a bit. Um, it might be stressful for the adults, probably would be stressful the adults to keep them under a black light 247. But having a black light that you occasionally turn on like I did like a lot of zoos will have a button you can push that turns the black light on on a timer or just like holding the button down and so doing that does not seem to be harmful for adults for short periods but keeping them under a black light 247 probably a bad idea.

[00:18:53]Trarium kid watching two streams at the same time. Oh, welcome Laura. Laura Philippy's here. So everybody wishing me luck. um that the female that I have put together with this male is going to be producing wood sack soon. I would be really excited if she if she does. Um she looks like chubby like she might soon. So, and there they produced I think fives for metaphors last time I put them together. I think the chances are pretty good we're going to get a brood sack. So, everybody wish me luck.

[00:19:24]I see Laura Philippy has her fingers crossed. Thank you. Put this guy back.

[00:19:35]Okay, now I forgot and I moved things. So, I'm just going to put some dang mushi here while I wait. I mean, while you wait to get some other critters, the dang mushi toys. Okay, I'm really excited about this next one.

[00:20:00]This is one of my newest invertebrate acquisitions.

[00:20:04]So, it's too late to give you an arachnid trigger warning because I've already put a couple of arachnids up. But here's a big one.

[00:20:20]You can see a little corner of her.

[00:20:24]They're beautiful little legs.

[00:20:28]This is Wifred Banks, my child golden knee.

[00:20:35]So, thank you, Laura. I hope it works. I will be very excitedly posting a video if she does produce another brood sack.

[00:20:42]Hopefully, this one will take it won't uh she won't abandon it.

[00:20:47]Thank you, Lyan and Lizards. Wifford is such a cute little spider. She is approximately a four or fiveyear-old Choco golden knee. Grandma stola poker piece. This was her first presentation.

[00:20:58]She did a good job. I did not remove her from the enclosure.

[00:21:02]Um I have not handled her. I probably won't for a while till I see how she reacts. I may never handle her. But she did really well at the presentations.

[00:21:12]People got to see her um eat. She ate a superworm for everybody. And I had her on camera in such a way that she was on a big screen live and uh so everybody got to see her, you know, go for the worm under uh the on the big screen on the wall was pretty cool. I think they enjoyed that. Well, I know they enjoyed that. And they were just kind of fascinated when we talked about the hairs and how the hairs are very sensitive to vibration and talked about icicating hairs and whatnot. So that was cool.

[00:21:46]and she has been a really good uh eater for me. She doesn't refuse food, which is nice. And she's been taking down superworms, crickets, mostly crickets, but I give her super ones here and there. Um Cindy's Bella's buggy bags. Welcome.

[00:22:07]So, my daughter's actually in the UK right now. This is pretty neat.

[00:22:14]staying in uh Preston, England for a bit.

[00:22:18]Pretty neat.

[00:22:20]Um or at least that area. Okay, now I'm going to put this one back and get something else.

[00:22:42]Okay, have this other critter right here. I'm going to switch out Wifred.

[00:22:45]Everybody say goodbye. Wifred over here.

[00:23:04]And this guy, this is Tortillini.

[00:23:10]Little dirty, but he is an albino Batman frog. Belongs to my daughter.

[00:23:16]And he is uh always a hit at the presentations when we discuss how big their mouths are and things like that. And just from his general appearance. This is a fun little frog that we raised from a little, you know, little guy. Probably, I don't know, six times the size he was when we got him. Maybe six, eight times the size we was when we got him. He's grown up and lived with us for a number of years now and is doing well despite the fact that he's quite dirty on the back. I think there might be a little bit of shed from his last shed that stayed on his back maybe in that dirt hatch and we'll have to get that off. But um seems to be doing well and has a cute little face, doesn't he?

[00:24:10]Okay, today's stream will likely be a little short. I'm still recovering from my health issues. that I'm doing so much better, but still a little low on energy, so don't want to push it. Um, bear play. Hello. Just got my first ice pod cone. It's quiet now.

[00:24:34]Okay. What kind of ice buds did you get?

[00:24:37]Bearplay. I'll put him in his enclosure.

[00:24:40]It's in the other room, but I'll put this lady down for a moment while you do that.

[00:24:46]Oh, I do.

[00:25:31]Okay.

[00:25:33]Oh, panda kings bear. Nice choice.

[00:25:36]Overall, pretty uh pretty nice pod.

[00:25:39]Tough ice pod. Really easy to breed and easy to keep ice pod.

[00:25:45]Striking pattern.

[00:25:47]Excellent choice all around. A little bit of urates on the pow.

[00:25:52]That's okay. Going to throw that away anyway. Um, this is Tiki.

[00:26:00]Glad they're doing well. Yeah, most of them will dig at first. And pendicings are are pretty much diggers. Going to be burrowing a lot or hiding under things a lot, but you'll be able to lift things a lot and see them quite a bit.

[00:26:14]Two of them are eating. That's always a good sign. So, this is Tikish. She's a crested gecko we've had for I want to say around 12 years cuz yeah, we've lived here for almost 11 maybe even more than 12 years now. Maybe maybe longer.

[00:26:30]We've had her for a long time. She still has her tail. She's done a good job. She has three offspring despite our best efforts.

[00:26:38]Um, two of them are still alive. One of them has some developmental issues. They were all parthonogenic babies. And because she was in a bioactive, the eggs developed.

[00:26:50]She's never made it. We got her when she was as long as my thumb, including her tail. She was only about a month old, and produced three babies. One of which had some pretty severe developmental issues with its eye. One of which um had some growth issues. In general, his body shape was pretty good, but it didn't grow very well, so it was kind of a a runt, I guess you could say. And the other one had issues with shedding and some other things, and it wouldn't really grow. that one passed away, but the two out of three did well.

[00:27:21]Um, so it's been interesting to see her do that.

[00:27:26]I She hasn't produced any babies for a while now. Maybe she's an older gecko.

[00:27:30]She tends to be capable of it, but not as common as when they're younger.

[00:27:36]So, Laura Philippy, yeah, I'm interested in trying red pendicings as a cleanup crew and bioactive. I have red pendicings now, and I really love them.

[00:27:42]So, I would like to try that.

[00:27:45]So, I'm going to quickly put Tiki in her enclosure and take this away because I need to change the paper towel out. Um, I'm going to come back for a minute.

[00:28:43]Okay. Yeah, she is well behaved. We we handf little and she's pretty tame. Zaku, hello. Nibles on the cucumber. Awesome.

[00:28:54]So, sprayed half of the enclosure with mineral water. Okay. You might get some buildup from that. It's mineral water. I don't think it's going to hurt them necessarily, but it might, you know, build up some carbonates and stuff and maybe make easier for them to climb out of the closure if that builds up enough.

[00:29:11]I usually use decllorinated tap water.

[00:29:14]Um, but I usually don't spray sort of squirt. I use bottle like these and I sometimes off part of the end so it sprays a little bit more heavily and I just squirt. It's not really a spray.

[00:29:27]It's more of a squirt into the the moist area. I like to use these for that, but you can do various things.

[00:29:34]Um, let me grab our next friend.

[00:30:00]This is our This is our corn snake. He's up to shed. So, he's a little heaku what I believe porcel lava mayard have a bin for them. Cool. They may be a wild type calico.

[00:30:16]Um, lava is from a specific locality and so what you have may have a similar mutation to lava or aim mutation, some kind of calico mutation, but lava specifically is a is a locality. And so I you might want to come up with your own term for them and I would love to see them. Um, a lot of times it's easy to confuse a lava style phenotype with a calico style phenotype. Calos are a lot more common than llas, but it could be a lavalike mutation. But I would hesitate to call it lava just because it's not from that particular locality that lava is from. So you can use decllorinated tap water. I use just we have a water filter in our fridge that filters a lot of stuff out including chlorine. It's a like a activated carbon filter. Use that.

[00:31:01]You can also use water conditioner for your aquariums and use that as well.

[00:31:04]Couple different.

[00:31:10]So this guy is very chill. Even when he's in blue, his eyes a little cloudy. His color is dullled because he's going to be shedding soon. I would rather not take him to a petition when this the case, but I had to do it in this guy. I didn't have a another snake to bring, so I bought this one. Um, but yeah, Zaku, you could send me an image on Instagram, a nice close-up image of some of the specimens. I could tell you which one it is. Um, but either way it's fun and either way you can certainly breed them and see what you get. Calico lines tend to be sex linked, but so you get like darker males with less patterning and then you get they look like wild types a lot of the time and then you'll get the other ones. The females will look more colorful. But that's not true of all calico lines. Some of the highly selected for lines in captivity like Orin's calico and some of the ones like Kyle's working with like that are not pure calico, but they're other things.

[00:32:09]They're calos that have been either selected for and then bred with other things or just highly selected for that don't have the dark males. They have the colorful variable males. So, you never know what you have be interesting to play with. I do love corn snakes, too. This is our buddy. So, we've had him since um 2018, I want to say. So, he's about 9 years old cuz he was a little over a year old when we got him. Um yeah, something like that. And yeah, he's very very chill. He's been to many many many many presentations, met many many many people, and is super super chill. One of the I mean, corn snakes tend to be chill anyway, but he is extra chill and is fine when he's in blue to meet people. He's he eats when he's in blue. He doesn't care. Um, so Zach here, when transferring ISOs to a new bin, how do you get all the out?

[00:33:02]Are there any good live traps? Getting all the babies out can be complicated.

[00:33:06]One of the easiest ways to do it in my opinion is to take everything you can start near it. Wait about a month and every week or two go in there and collect everything you can. Use a little paint brush and brush off the little babies.

[00:33:31]And after that, there shouldn't be much left. And if you're really not sure, do the same thing. Repeat it for another month. Keep repeating until you get the last ones out. And you can destroy the uh substrate by freezing once you're satisfied. You get all the ice spots out.

[00:33:52]Okay. So, something died in something's breaking up.

[00:34:01]Reports from Laura Taylor and Zacher that something's breaking. I'm not sure what's going on. Probably the internet connection, but uh sorry about that. So, Zach, do you send me a pick? Um, if you want to preserve the genetic integrity of the group you have, I would just keep going with that 10. Um, that would be the best way to, you know, retain whatever unique traits that group has.

[00:34:24]But since it is uh freaking out and it's about 35 minutes, I'm going to call it here. Thank you for joining me everyone and we will plan on live streaming again in about two weeks.

[00:34:34]Have a good one. Bye.