Why is he hitting a jig?

https://reddit.com/link/1vo7eex/video/urre7fy3ecjh1/player

I see him arch and lift his butt sometimes when the lid is closed and I look at him. I think he gets triggered by shadows through my curtain in the distance if not my own shadow. In this one he's wiggling his butt with the lid open. He's solitary, his roommate on the other side of the tank isolated from meeting because he's a bully. Just in case, is this potentially a bad jig?

u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 6 days ago

Do beetles show or feel affection?

I'm not a beetle enthusiast by any means (though I think they're pretty cool looking), I just came across this beetle core video and looked through the comments. I found a thread in the replies and I don't know why but it pissed me off. Is this accurate? They seem rather sure of themselves.

I own hissers myself, an insect, and I know they don't ever learn to feel affection. Like, literally neurologically impossible. So are beetles fundamentally different in their brain structures ​for them to be making these claims? They keep comparing beetle behavior to mammals who ARE capable of affection. To me, it's starting to sound a lot like anthropomorphizing bias, a bad habit of humans, but I could be wrong. Can anyone fact check?

u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 14 days ago
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Okay these HAVE to be springtails right?

In a previous post on what mightve been a diff sub, I inquired about a creature I found in my hissers tank that I couldn't ID. I had a sneaking suspicion they were springtails because of their elongated bodies and antennae but I could be wrong and I'd really like to know before these guys start infesting in there lol. They're usually buried in the soil or crawling on wood or the food dish sometimes where my hisser's wheat bran is. ​

It was harder to see in the previous video, but compared to that, this one looks crazy clearer. So tell me, these ARE springtails... Right?

u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 16 days ago

Wild springtails??

I'm in a humid area and I've been noticing these crawling around one side of my hissers substrate and driftwood. This was after I added more depth to their substrate, maybe 2 inches. What the hell is it? Gnats? Fruit flies? I haven't even bought springtails yet lol

Sorry for the quality, I have a shitty camera it's so annoying

u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 21 days ago

Around what stage am I good to just scoop these guys up?

It's been 3 weeks and 2 days since I had them and I'm still worried whether I can just scoop them up or not. I've fed the dominant one (maurice) like more than three times with my fingers before and he doesn't seem very fazed anymore when I pop in or when I flash my light at him. Today I fed him banana on my palm and finger but he got skittish and didn't wanna enter my palm fully so I didn't force him. He hid behind his cave instead of inside where he spent most of his time in, also swerved away when he felt my hand. The other one (king) immediately DOVE into the banana I held between my tweezers just after maurice, who's more hesitant. The thing is that king is recovering from stress after being bullied by maurice for days, and while recovering he has hissed thrice at me in quick succession in a situation I don't think he would have hissed in back then. It's been days, approaching a week, since I separated them though. Soo I'm extra careful with interacting with him even though he's the first one that willingly climbed on my hand when I fed him apple on my tweezers, ignoring the apple. He was the one I interacted with the most

I see keepers scooping their hissers up, even ones they haven't really kept for that long, or ones they just got fresh from the shop. So I guess my real question is, should I be taking their responses at me that seriously to begin with? I'm a first time keeper so I may be fussing over this a liiiiittle too much but I don't want to stress them out or anything 😭😭

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u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 1 month ago

3 days in, hisser loves being wedged between lid and rim

Just wanted to share a cute behavior I discovered with my new hissers as a beginner. So unfortunately I haven't found a way to take a picture of it from the outside as I'm using a foggy ass plastic bin so they are DIFFICULT to see, I don't have a dedicated light for them, and I don't want to shine light on them too much. But it's been 3 days since I've had these guys, and one has already gotten bold enough to explore around and get a feel for the perimeter even in the morning. He's an adult male. Seems like he's exhibiting alpha behavior, the other male and nymph have just been hiding in a wood tunnel.

Recently this explorer has grown to really like this tight space between the lid and the top rim, sleeping the entire day away in it. That's when I found out they feel very secure when sandwiched, so I stopped panicking that he was stuck lol. Pretty cute, concerning at first because he looked squished, realized he crawls out like nothing happened when he wants to, BUT... checking the enclosure has been a lil inconvenient. I don't want him escaping, REALLY not planning to touch him yet if he does try to (admittedly im as scared of him as he prolly is of me), so I've just left him alone to rest.

Hopefully this guy leaves when night hits bc I wanna toss out the veggies and give him some banana lol, or I'll have to intervene and make him leave. Soon I'll gather the courage to handle him bit by bit. I also want to get some better hides or more wood bc the driftwood I bought was a liiiittle too small for three hissers, prolly why he's been sitting up there instead. Maybe vaseline too

Bold explorer, roaming in the mornings. Certified plastic sandwich lover

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u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 2 months ago

Enough holes for a hisser?

Getting a pair of males and a sub-adult soon (the seller writes it as medium so I just assume it's not an adult yet lol) and I'm using a 22 liter plastic bin. Are these holes enough or too much?

I live in a humid country, can get very hot (around 30° c and higher) so I'm also wondering whether I should wet the cocopeat at all or just leave it dry so it's not a sauna in there​​

u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 2 months ago

every single thing ive found about omsi 2 cracks includes dlcs already and i simply don't have the space for all of it and would prefer to download it manually myself. i found one post on this and it has no proper answers. i do have one torrent downloading from cs rin but honestly im not acquainted with the more technical side of piracy so it was very hard to understand what the hell most of them were talking about nor what to do with the files, and it's taking a looong time to download. seems like it's pre-cracked tho

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u/Famous_Calendar2666 — 4 months ago