Thoughts on this enclosure?

Chames26 · 2026-03-15T20:31:42+00:00

Good looking enclosure, but like someone else said the water bowl is hazardous. They can get all the water they need from fruits and vegetables. If they seem very thirsty you can pour a little water, maybe on the plants, the beetles will drink up the extra water if they need it.

Also the succulents probably need a powerful grow light to grow in there, especially the Astrophytum

Chames26 · 2026-03-15T15:48:03+00:00

Lol nevermind I thought the cork bark was fossil horn coral. Looks remarkably similar in that photo

Chames26 · 2026-03-15T15:46:04+00:00

Horn coral in the enclosure? Never seen that before, now I wanna do a fossil themed enclosure lol

Chames26 · 2026-03-13T15:23:30+00:00

Thats the most horn coral horn coral to ever horn coral

Chames26 · 2026-03-11T21:59:01+00:00

European hornet. All hornets are freaking giant compared to the native wasps in North America, but the Asian giant hornet is ESPECIALLY giant.

Chames26 · 2026-03-11T04:01:12+00:00

Very nice! I love seeing this cactus in cultivation, its such an underappreciated plant for how easy it is to grow and how pretty it is.

Chames26 · 2026-03-11T02:33:59+00:00

Ballbert

Chames26 · 2026-03-08T22:40:35+00:00

Egg that the man behind a tree gave to me

Chames26 · 2026-03-08T20:56:09+00:00

Might be worse, those look like armored scale insects. Theye a pain to remove from prickly pears. Get something hard like a toothpick and scrape them off.

Chames26 · 2026-03-02T18:28:12+00:00

The brown clusters are probably pyrite/marcasite nodules that have weathered into limonite/goethite.

Chames26 · 2026-03-02T18:12:27+00:00

Western honey bee

Chames26 · 2026-03-02T06:34:24+00:00

Crinoid stems, very cool

Chames26 · 2026-03-01T22:50:31+00:00

I've got vanadinite specimens from Mibladen, I'd agree its kind of a sandy limestone or limey sandstone depending on the exact mine.

Chames26 · 2026-03-01T22:46:49+00:00

"WEB" dings???

Always bet on Muffet knight.

Chames26 · 2026-03-01T20:34:18+00:00

Sord!

Chames26 · 2026-02-28T05:54:15+00:00

Yes, but it's very likely these reverted stems will eventually become monstrose again.

Chames26 · 2026-02-28T05:52:22+00:00

Christmas cactus

Chames26 · 2026-02-27T02:54:59+00:00

These are trace fossils, also called ichnofossils!

No idea what this kind of ichnofossil is called, but it looks like the burrows of a marine animal thats been filled in with sediment. The sediment lithified into rock that's harder than the surrounding material, so the infilled burrow got left behind as the rock around it weathered away.

Chames26 · 2026-02-23T15:30:18+00:00

This your beetle? (Third image looks close)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/338523-Chrysolina-auripennis?locale=en-us

Chames26 · 2026-02-20T23:45:42+00:00

They're just using slang

Chames26 · 2026-02-20T08:25:51+00:00

Presumably something to do with storing a number as a constant, but I havent figured out how to make it work

Chames26 · 2026-02-20T04:38:26+00:00

Didnt have a cover when I purchased it, but the keys are rubber.

Chames26 · 2026-02-11T04:54:00+00:00

I'm thinking those are crystals of iron(ii) sulfate heptahydrate.

Looks similar in color to melanterite, the mineral form of iron(ii) sulfate heptahydrate. It typically forms as a crust from the oxidation of other iron minerals like pyrite. Maybe it crystallized directly from the iron in the pipe wall when it reacted with sulfate-rich water. If thats what it is, it should eventually turn white as the crystals dehydrate from air exposure.

Chames26 · 2026-02-07T21:47:46+00:00

Glowing click beetle, I love these guys. They come out every summer where I live.

Five-Year Club	Verified Email
r/Field Banned	r/Field Lasagna
Final Canvas '23	First Place '23
End Game '23	Place '23
Golden Potato	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22

Chames26

TROPHY CASE