Bambam1989
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When offering green beans do you steam them first?Where was this image posted?
I have 7.8 K. erosa. I've posted a few pictures, they seem to be willing to mate all the time rain or no rain. No eggs yet. I got them about a year ago. All show active growth. Mine eat chopped lettuce butts, squash (winter and summer types), cactus, apple, banana, chopped microwave eggs, hibiscus leaves and flowers, sweet potato, green beans, cauliflower and broccoli stalks, and I give them layer crumbles soaked in cold brewed hibiscus water. I do give them mushrooms too, but keep it limited, mushrooms have a horrible C: P ratio and no matter whatever special digestion things they may or may not have, they need calcium.
The temps of the enclosure range from the mid 70'sF to high 80'sF. There is one T5 HO light at one end of a 2 x 4 foot enclosure, they don't seem to seek out higher light at all. I've gone to the room they are in at night and when it is pretty much total darkness they are eating, walking around, mating etc. I have a two inch deep water tray 24 x 18 Inches and they may sit in it for many hours a day. I use several inches of cypress mulch and they will shimmy into it so that they sit in water in a small depression in the cypress. The whole enclose has overflow drain, so I flood it with many gallons of water frequently, not as rain but right out of a hose onto the cypress. They come and stick their face in the hose water, sometime drinking but mostly seeming to just like it.
The group all came in one importation so I am pretty sure they represent just one population, they are all wild caught. Chris Mannis at Dalton State University has an active reproducing group for a STEM program there.
Do you provide any night time temperature drop?
I believe I read the thread from when you got them, most of them had tether holes if I remember. They were lovely specimens!
I came across an online news article from Dalton State University talking about his success with them, but it didn't go into detail on his methods.