Chalcosoma-caucasus breeding manual

A Chalcosoma caucasus is famous as Beetle strongest by the beetle with large-sized 3 angles in an insect community. A price is also handy and acquisition is easy always. Murray, a Jawa, and Sumatra of a place of production are common. The product from Murray has the well splendid physique especially.
A cheap small pair will be sufficient if it is the Several-generation purpose.

If a parents is purchased, male and female will be managed separately first, and jelly is given enough. Probably, it will be better to carry out quietly on the 1st, since especially the wild thing probably felt stress by the long journey. (However, it is not a nervous insect)
Independent breeding of Caucasus is foundations. If it breeds in the case of male-female 1 clue, male will pursue female about and will weaken female.
If female is set to the case for a breeding from the beginning, it can save time and effort.
Since it is a glutton anyhow, be careful of especially a food piece. If food runs short, a perch, a The stand for food, etc. may be deleted and broken. A nail is sharp and, moreover, a Strong power. This will suffer misfortune and a Leg-paragraph will be lost early.
It will become that the way which food always suited does not make such meaning riot, either, but it also makes a Leg-paragraph last long.
It was made for breeding temperature not to go up by 30 degrees or more summer. However, in practice, by the humidity-maintenance-sheet, since the inside of a breeding-case was steamed, although it thought that it had probably become 30 degrees or more, it was maintaining health considerably.
A life is about three - four months. When female is made to egg generate, it is before or after two months.

If it will carry out for 2 or 3 days and female is eating jelly after purchase, the lid of a case will be opened quietly and male will be slowly put on female so that female may not escape. It is a point to make the smell of female smell so that male may be made to recognize that it is female. Since it will become a mortal wound especially once it inserts female when large-sized, cautions are required.
If it succeeds, it will copulate as it is.
When female has disliked and escaped, let's do not make it impossible but wait for the following opportunity.

* The picture of copulation of Caucasus from Murray

although there is nothing with the large case for a breeding that it was alike and was exceeded, there is also a problem of a breeding space or cost and I think that it is enough in a large plastic case
Caucasus hardens a mat and produces one egg at a time in a lump.
The purchased mat is sufficient as a mat. However, I think that the mat with which the powdery fermentation which is easy to harden progressed and which was corroded black is the optimal.
Many eggs were obtained by using what mixed black soil with the mat used for larva breeding of a Stag beetle, or the cheap embedding mat. Probably, there is no necessity of using an expensive beetle mat.
Incidentally the expense of the mat only for Beetles is about 4 times expensive.
At the time of a set, I can make an egg easy to induce by hardening a mat by the half to a breeding-case beforehand, and also think that it becomes also preventing consumption of physical strength further.
I think it effective to put the Wood of a "kunugi" or a "konara" into breeding promotion. However, please do not bury not much deeply. It will become the obstacle of a breeding.

female stops rarely appearing on a mat, if a breeding is started. Seemingly, its egg without energy will increase, if a Beetle is not made to sometimes copulate. Probably, it will be good to make it make it copulate, if female is eating jelly.
Since there is a risk of female crushing the already produced egg, eggs are gathered at once at two - three weeks.
All mats are thrown away, although it is wasteful, since a possibility of crushing an egg is high when a nematode occurs on the mat for a breeding. Since it is attached to the The stand for food etc., it exchanges for what was sterilized by a new thing or new direct rays.
If the larva of an a small fly is also large-generated, a mat will come on aggravation and mud remarkably and the inside of a case will become full of a small flies. Let's insert a humidity-maintenance-sheet between a lid and a breeding-case, and prevent infiltration.

There are some persons who wait until it becomes a larva without extracting an egg. However, since ticks are parasitic or female crushes an egg, many larvae will be obtained for the way whose eggs were gathered frequently.
An egg will be crushed, if it digs forcibly, since the mat is hardened by female at the a hard thing when extracting an egg. It is safe, if a mat is broken down and eggs are gathered, after making a breeding-case reverse and taking it out the whole mat.
It seems that the rate of hatching will become low if eggs are gathered a little early. I try to want for No. 1 of gathering eggs once to be good in one month.
A white and long and slender egg is an egg soon after generated. A large white egg is an egg which left two weeks or more of generated. The yellow egg to which a mat is easy to adhere has a near born from the egg.
Incidentally I was able to get the 59-piece egg from one pair.

The extracted egg is managed from a pudding cup. The mat which fermentation finished is packed, a hole is made with chopsticks etc., and an egg is dropped and buried. Probably, it will be good to set to the side, when knowing the state of an egg. If you make a cup separate according to growth of an egg, it is convenient at the time of larva extraction.
It seems that a larva eats the husks of an egg born from the egg. Therefore, probably, it will be better to drop downward completely.
Since it takes about one month by born from the egg, let's be cautious of dryness of a mat.
A larva comes to look faint when two weeks or more pass.

After setting to a pudding cup, if one month passes, a L1 larva will hatch.
The larva which hatches and between does not have, either has a delicate head white. Several days after, if a head colors in orange, it should shift to larva breeding.
If it is not an egg without energy, it will hatch by high probability.
Although the egg might be covered by thing like a sticky fungi or a white Fungi thread, it hatched safely.

If a L1 larva is an inside plastic case, it will be bred by 1-3 animals. If it is a large plastic case, breeding will be possible in 3-6 animals.
If you want to make a large-sized individual at this time, the number of the larvae put into one case is lessened. If you want to correct the time error of a change imago of male-female, the member of a breeding-case is increased.
A mat grows more greatly by mixing an eats and Leftovers, a dog food, etc. of a Fungi thread of a stag beetle with the beetle mat currently sold, the mat used for the Stag-beetle larva, and them.
However, since water comes out of the eats and Leftovers of a Fungi thread, a mat is worsened and a dog food causes generating, such as ticks, let's take care.
Since it is weak to dryness of a mat, a Water supply is sometimes carried out to it.
It grows up to be a L2 larva in about one month.

If it is a large-sized aim, it is the ideal which is performed for every month.
When contracting the error of a change imago by the plurality breeding, it is delaying mat exchange, and it is thought that it is effective in advancing maturity, delaying growth. Consequently, I think that it miniaturizes and male usually grows wings early more.

If it carries out as long as four months from a breeding start, it will be a L3 larva and male larva will grow greatly white, female larva begins to ripen, and is somewhat small yellow, and the difference in male-female appears clearly at this time.
In the case of a large-sized aim, male and female are isolated at this time. In the case of a large plastic case male is bred by 1-2 animals, and breeding and female are bred by 3-5 animals.
If two more months pass, since female larva ripens and colors in deep yellow, it will be set to change pupas.
In the case of male larva, it ripens in an about 3-4-piece previous month.
In a plurality breeding, even if female ripens previously, it leaves as it is.
If it becomes a form before pupa on a mat, let's move to an artificial pupa room.

The set of the case for change pupas. Black soil(What carried out the Water supply and became like clay ) is stuffed into the about 1/3 lower part of a case as firmly as possible. A upside mat is the usual mat for breeding.
By carrying out like this, it can prevent moving about and shrinking the larva which ripened, without the ability building a pupa room to some extent.
Probably, not only black soil but a used mat etc. may be mixed.
The period of a pupa is about two months.

When it has become a form before pupa or takes out on a mat for observation, a pupa will be managed at an artificial pupa room.
The Water supply of how to build is carried out, so that a mini container kneads black soil like clay, and it kneads black soil and creates a pupa room so that it may become larger from a pupa.
On both sides of a moisturing sheet, humidity is maintained between a lid and a case. Since black soil cracks if dryness progresses, let's manage briskly.

Since Caucasus will scramble for food if the plurality breeding also of the female is carried out not to mention male by the beetle with a very rude mind, it quarrels violently, raises barricade barricade sound, it becomes a hurting and a breeding becomes difficult, independent breeding is foundations.
If male mixes two animals, either will be a rose rose in one day.

As the method of make a large model
1. A Small Number of Breeding
2.Periodical mat exchange in every 1 months.
3. Additives, such as a dock hood. (even if it Does Not Carry Out, Large Model is Possible Enough)
4.In order to recommend a change pupa after maturity, it sets to change pupas.
It is an etc.
I think that it is not difficult to enlarge a larva itself. However, there are many examples about which do not become a pupa easily after maturity but it moves within a case. I become small in the period, consequently consider [ that a large model cannot be made in many cases and ].

As the method of contracting the gap of a change imago of male-female
1. Plurality Breeding.
2. The number of times of mat exchange is reduced.
3. male and female are bred collectively.
It is an etc.
Although it miniaturizes, I think that a gap of a change imago can be contracted. However, it cannot say that experience is still clear few. I think that maturity can be advanced, delaying growth by merely refraining from mat exchange. I want to clarify by future breeding.

White ticks may be parasitic on an egg. This tick inhales the juice of an egg, swells up like a ball, and is set to about 2mm. Let's remove, immediately after are careful at the time of egg gathering, observing and finding it, since it is naturally detrimental to an egg. Although what beginning inhales was seen, it was still about 0.5mm in size.
It seems that an egg is not crushed since the needle like mouth of ticks is thin.
However, it will die certainly, if eggs are not gathered.

* The picture of ticks