55g Himalayan Foothills Paludarium

[WhistlingBadger]

@connorlindeman I hereby request a plant of the month contest. But please hurry.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Boso

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I've been feeding Boso meal worms this week. Some of them are a little big and he really has to work to get them stuffed down. But if I dig around in the media I can usually find a nice soft one that has just shed its skin. He likes those better.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Now that spring is here, I have been supplementing Boso the frog's normal store crickets with small earth worms and other mini critters I find in the yard and around the house. Without really thinking it through, I just fed him a half-grown wolf spider I found in the basement. It was probably a terrible idea but, like many terrible ideas, the result was pretty awesome. The ensuing battle was brief but dramatic. Boso won.

Now regretting that I didn't think to video it.

 

[Magnum Man]

I never did like feeding things, that can bite back... you look at old critters in captivity, and they are road maps of battles they won... but often they don't look pretty any more, and end up grizzled, and old looking

 

[jaylach]

Now that spring is here, I have been supplementing Boso the frog's normal store crickets with small earth worms and other mini critters I find in the yard and around the house. Without really thinking it through, I just fed him a half-grown wolf spider I found in the basement. It was probably a terrible idea but, like many terrible ideas, the result was pretty awesome. The ensuing battle was brief but dramatic. Boso won.

Now regretting that I didn't think to video it.

Was probably interesting but I would never use a wolf spider as a food source. When I lived in Texas and Florida a wolf spider taking residence in your home was often considered a blessing as they don't make webs and eat all kinds of bugs you don't want.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Yeah, it wasn't my smartest moment. It had been a very long day.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Found a dead Padamya barb last night. They seem to just up and die once in a while; I have no idea why. Down to six of them now, which is probably sufficient, but not as cool as when I had a dozen.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Scored some juniper hair cap moss (I think?) down in Arkansas last week. It seems to have survived the trip home wrapped in plastic wrap and stuffed in an empty iced tea bottle, and is now in the paludarium. Cool stuff.

 

[MuddyWaters]

it looks like little pine needles. Very cool

 

[Boundava]

Wow that is one unique plant, I hope it does well for you.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

So far so good! They really do look like tiny pine trees.

 

[Boundava]

It reminds me of the horsetail plant that we have by us. It's not aquatic but it looks very similar to that just much much larger, lol.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Tank is looking good, but I need to thin the plants. I haven't seen most of my bottom feeders in weeks.

 

[Boundava]

Looking great