Triple Insect Video 

I don't know if it's just the type of substrate, but the snail enclosure looks super dry... Most snails need pretty high/medium humidity to thrive. (E.g. my achatina reticulata needs misting 1-2 times per day.)

The "egg" is the cocoon Also with flower beetles like pachnoda, it is not advised to take the pupa from the cocoon as it can increase the risk of malformation

For the water bug mosquito larvas would be the best.

When I was a kid I used to catch and keep diving beetle each spring. I feed them earthworms, because it could not catch things what floats on the surface of the water. And eartworms stay alive in the water long enough for the beetle to notice it.

They're not called assassin bugs for nothin... those things are machines

Tadpoles!!! My daughter was keeping tadpoles a few years ago. She had at least 250 in the pond in my back garden. I went to clean the water out as it had become really dirty. I started to notice that I hadn't seen any tadpoles, on further inspection I found 1 great diving beetle and 1 diving beetle larvae. These two had eaten every single tadpole in the space of a week!!! So I can guatentee it will eat them.

We have so many Sun bugs here in South Africa! In our compost heap, we have ATLEAST 200-350 sun bugs crawl out of there each summer...Thats why we always have so many birds around 😂

Hey! I rarely comment BUT your diving beetle might enjoy one of those sponge filters connected to air pump there are mini air pumps available. That water is providing much more than perhaps you realize but water cannot stay still it will cause more problems in your container. Continue these works do help.

Why are French snails the fastest in the world? L'ess cargo

Watching Petko interact with the Sunbeatle was more wholesome than my entire childhood.

Try to feed the water bug with some worms, for mine it worked

I don't know if you are even reading that, but I think your videos are really interesting. I thought about keeping tarantulas as pets, but I can't bring myself to it, even though "they are really simple to keep". It's really awesome, that you even say things like "I don't want want to order anything cause its too cold right now". There aren't many people that think like that and it's really cool (no pun intended) that you look at it this way. So few pet owners think about their pets nowadays.

I wouldn't mind more bug, beetle, and snail content like this! Mandatory smartass comment: The "egg shaped thing" is the cocoon and inside is the pupa...

I love live plants in the enclosures. Those are some cute bugs.

The giant land snails look awesome. I have 6 of them I started with 2 and they had 4 babies that survived. I really like them they really are lovely pets . And so easy to look after. And their Friendly. The grubs turned into such pretty beetles. The markings on that ones back is stunning. Hope the lovely little water bug starts eating for you. It sure is a very interesting little creature. And it's so cute. Thanks for another awesome video. Chriss

There's probably mosquito eggs in the dirt, they will act as food, but in the meantime earthworms work great, you can dig them up or buy them cheap online Edit: or maybe mealworms

You should add some moss or some plants with the snails to keep the moisture level up

Petko thanks for inspiring me, with your gentle and enthusiastic videos, to go from fobic to tarantula owner. My newest one (C. Cyaneopubescens) got named Petko :)

For the diving beetle maybe try life earthworms. They survive long enaugh in the water for the beetle to find em at its own pace. If that doesnt work, feeder guppys should do the trick.

I think you need to fill the water bug enclosure with little swimming bugs. Maybe other bug larvae

Lets goooo!!! Greetings petko. Excited for this new set up since you posted it on instagram!

Behold!!

Did you just leave the roach🪳🪳🪳 floating with your diving beetle? Maybe it will munch on it later? Always enjoy your videos!!🕷🕸🕷 The newly hatched Sun Beatles are gorgeous!!🌞🪲🌞 I loved your sound effects for their walking!!🤣🤣🤣Thank you for the smiles and great videos....I appreciate your hard work!!😉😉😉By the way....I live in South Dakota....we have always wondered about words like knife and gnat too....phonics made no sense sometimes!!🤪🥸🧐😉

The beetle/snail terrarium is bit dry.

Hi! I’ve raised a relative of these beetles before. The easiest food that they LOVE is chicken liver. I have an extremely old video of one eating it. I bought the chicken liver frozen and defrosted tiny pieces for the beetle and then dropped it. They smell it and eventually swim over. They can also eat pellets but prefer meat.

That pinch of sand totally transformed the whole enclosure - it’s like a beach now 😂

Time always flies when your episodes play. I think it needs larvae to eat. I once saw a documentary about these beetles. If I can find it, I'll tell ya. It was a YT doc.

The sun beetles are beautiful ! 😍

Petko, try and get mosquito larvae, tiny mosquito fish, or some kind of worm. Although the water bug is a predator I don't think one that size actively hunts anything bigger than a mosquito larvae or dragonfly larvae. Awesome video though. Always look forward to my weekly #Darkden videos.

Bloodworms are a popular fish food, you should try that! They float and maybe will be more attractive to the bug

Will you get to choose from different species of jumping spider when you purchase one? If so, will you do a poll or question (in the community tab)? You could give us choices of the ones you like/want to keep and then let us vote and majority would win. You could take us along and follow you on the journey of placing the order, the jumper arriving, etc. You could name it "Denny" for the Dark Den (and its a unisex name lol) You have ya a whole lil "mini series" type deal there! 😂 Is it just me that would find that neat and cool? My bad....I'll see myself out. HAHA!!! Those one lil bugs are vicious lil guys! LOL! A great video as always! Have a great weekend!

If they're are four beetles in the snails enclosures if not you should order 3 more and call them, John, Paul ,George and Ringo.

Marco, buy some guppies - they are easy to keep, female gives birth after 28 days and they mature in 3-4 months so you can have quite a steady food source for the Great Diving Beetle

Adding Springtails and Isopods to your enclosures will help with mites and fungus

Those beetles are absolutely adorable however it doesn't take away from THE HORROR of the .... GNATS ? XD

Petko, for the diving beetle, ive seen laboratories would crush the crickets for the beetles to taste/smell the prey. Sorry for the beetle pupa, it could of been parasites that got to it

I have the same plant in thr enclosure of my Acanthoscuria Geniculata - she likes to destroy it and cut of leafs... But it is growing so good that I still have to cut it down :D

Hey man! As always love the content, for a prettier kiwi the second jajaja you should try getting a peacock spider

For the water bug mosquito larvae or live brine shrimp would probably work great.

maybe try daphnia (water fleas) or bloodworms (Chironomidae or Glycera) for the diving beetle? - any pet shop that sells fish/aquatics will sell them

Often in older English the letter was pronounced, throughout time some letters got dropped especially around the Great Vowel shift. For example Knight (said night) was originally pronounced closer to "K-nicht".

the snail that you picked up has deep retraction syndrom.

♥️♥️ love from south africa ♥️♥️

Us Americans don't even know why we put letters if they aren't pronounced either🤷‍♀️

You should try giving your diving beetle some earthworms since they sink Also I've seen diving beetles attacking Worms several times their size so that would alsoo make good content

Silent g in "gnat" is apparently because it derives from an old German(ic) word in which the g wasn't silent. Much like the silent k in knight or knife. So... we don't pronounce it because it's stupid to have extra sounds in words, but we still spell it that way because we're stubborn.

Your channel is awesome and I can tell you truly care about all your critters.

I really recommend to get some super/morio worms, they are really easy to keep and are a good feeder insect. The coolest thing about them is they turn in to beautiful black beetles

6:07 a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

YAY finally an update on the beetles

Awesome! and my dark den shirt arrived today! Thank you Petko!

Those mites are harmless. They only eat the waste like springtails

Its a good day when petko uploads

Oh, is Elytra beetles something that is common in the hobby? They are so prettyyyyyyy!! Would you ever get one, Petko?

Love your videos. Your accent is a bit too strong for me to understand so I turned on the CC and lets just say RU-vid's CC generator is very.....flawed. But it still helps me understand what you're trying to say and makes me love your videos all the more. Thank you for doing what I'm too chicken to do.

I would try moskito larvas or red tubifex for feeding the water beetle

Kiwi's home is getting a new resident! gonna miss her but it's too nice of an enclosure to leave empty

Petko: Why do you write vocals and consonants, when you don't pronounce them? French people: Parce que nous pouvons! (because we can)

Because the beetles eat old fruits they will be drunk most of the time, making them not fly very well. If they start flying its hilarious and it sounds like a helicopter

hello great video petcko

I can't wait to watch with the fish

You should get the long jawed jumping spider as well!

You can put some bloody red meat for the diving beetle. Like beef liver. Its what i use to catch these guys

The reason for letters that are not pronounced typically comes back to how printing presses were paid. If they're paid by the word, there are less letters. If they are paid by letter, then you have a lot of silent letters.

You should try blood worms or tubaflex worms and small feeder guppies. That sho

"What's the point in adding letters to words if you don't intend to pronounce them" As a native Englishman I have been asking the same bloody thing since I was in school. Our language is so often inconsistent & needlessly obtuse.

Buggin 🐌🐛🦟🦗🐜🐝🐞🦂🕷

It is possible to feed diving beetles with dead bugs from tongs, but they are usually quite skittish. Tiny minnows or worms would work in the mean time. Are you planning to keep and breed assassin bugs that are native to your area at some point?

Worms tadpods and small fish for the water bug

Tadpoles are great food for diving beetles

Tip for feeding the driving beetle : try sum cut up earthworms or fish 👍🏽 it worked for me

i think you have to smash the roach to let gim know something dead is in the water

If you want to get another jumping spider, how about Hyllus Gigantus? Its supposed to be the biggest jumping spider. Idk if it is availabe in the hobby though

@The Dark Den Need mosquito larva to feed diving beetle or very small worm 🪱

9:21 listening to a fellow Croat rant about words from other languages that include letters that are not pronounced is very relateable.

Awesome video man! Can’t wait for the next upload

Your sun beetles will fly around the enclosure aswell

Mosquito Fish are a pretty easy fish to breed as feeders for the Diving Beetle

Lets go spiny bugs are back

Very cool petko 🤘

Cool looking beetles

Love the vids man.

I'm rly loving my mondays and fridays these days. Monday we raid and then dark den. Friday we run twisted and then dark den... just need wednesdays and sundays(myth+ nights) to also be dark den nights... then my life would be perfect 😆

Try mosquito larvae for the water bug, you can get live once in the most aquarium/fish shops😁👍

Petko how about some blood worm or sea monkeys for the diving beetle xxx

i 100% agree with you. i'm an american, but i HATE silent letters. they are superfluous, inefficient, and confusing. DOWN WITH SILENT LETTERS! VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!!

This channel should have more subscribers than exotic lairs

Excited to see the beetle enclosure!

9:20 oh you would love French, I'm sure xD

Maybe try dropping a live insect into water beetle to mimic struggling prey

For the water bug get frozen blood worms I found that works pretty good

those larvas almost look like parasitic wasp larvas

Nice one

I don’t get what goes through peoples mind when they dislike these videos

Gn in English is from old/middle English and doesn't follow the Latin formula for words :P The problem with English is that its a blend of alot of different languages haha :)

Love the vids mate keep them coming 🙏🤙

Get some little minnows to feed the water beetle. Do you have any water spiders in your collection?

Dear Petko, dyticus hunt aquatic preys like larvae or small fishes, not roaches !

Still so sad for kiwi :(

baby spiny guys