xxBarneyxx
Fish Aficionado
So my mrs phones me at lunch today and apparently some kind person in our family has bought my 4 year old daughter some Indian stick insect eggs which arrived unexpectedly in the post.
I kept stick insects as a kid and from a quick look it doesn't look too challenging but having raised moths and butterfly with my kids I have to say I don't enjoy cleaning out insect enclosures when they are small and easily hurt/removed without noticing.
I was maybe thinking of picking up/making a small tank, adding a bit of height to it and growing some ivy in there and maybe some other smaller plants/mosses. Ideally with some isopods and other compatible critters to make it a bit of of an enclosed ecosystem?
Anyone done anything like that? Do they eat more then a live plant will be able to grow? Any tips or advice?
My daughter will absolutely love them as going out bug hunting is literally her favorite past time. Just wish we had been given a heads up first.....
I kept stick insects as a kid and from a quick look it doesn't look too challenging but having raised moths and butterfly with my kids I have to say I don't enjoy cleaning out insect enclosures when they are small and easily hurt/removed without noticing.
I was maybe thinking of picking up/making a small tank, adding a bit of height to it and growing some ivy in there and maybe some other smaller plants/mosses. Ideally with some isopods and other compatible critters to make it a bit of of an enclosed ecosystem?
Anyone done anything like that? Do they eat more then a live plant will be able to grow? Any tips or advice?
My daughter will absolutely love them as going out bug hunting is literally her favorite past time. Just wish we had been given a heads up first.....