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Post by lucanusalan on Apr 2, 2011 13:05:20 GMT -8
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Post by bichos on Apr 2, 2011 21:25:42 GMT -8
hi Lucanusalan great photos you are very lucky to be able to breed these, we are restricted by strict laws here in Australia and cannot breed any exotic beetles. anyway C. metallifer are rather a diurnal species so I'm told. they are common and relatively cheap now, I have yet to acquire a 100mm plus specimen tho... 94mm is my best effort from Sulawesi  and 92mm from Peleng thanks for sharing |
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Post by lucanusalan on Apr 3, 2011 17:49:37 GMT -8
hi Lucanusalan great photos you are very lucky to be able to breed these, we are restricted by strict laws here in Australia and cannot breed any exotic beetles. anyway C. metallifer are rather a diurnal species so I'm told. they are common and relatively cheap now, I have yet to acquire a 100mm plus specimen tho... 94mm is my best effort from Sulawesi and 92mm from Peleng thanks for sharing They are known to be very easy to breed. Australia has a lot of really cool beetles so you should look for one. 100 mm plus is huge! I hope I can see some pictures. |
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Post by lucanidae25 on Apr 3, 2011 18:07:45 GMT -8
Although Cyclommatus metallifer is easy to breed but C. elaphus, C. chewi and C. imperator monguilloni are still impossible to produce any huge sizes in captivity breeding. Even the Japanese finds it hard to produce any reasonable sizes in captivity. I'm wandering why?  ? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2011 18:21:12 GMT -8
I guess this 85mm job is fairly large---I sure like it. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2011 18:24:16 GMT -8
I got this one years ago and hope to get one over 100mm someday. For now, 95mm will have to do. I'd absolutely go crazy....(more than I already am).... if I could ever rear these, but I doubt it here in the USA  Attachments:
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Post by lucanidae25 on Apr 4, 2011 1:42:11 GMT -8
I have a C. elaphus 102mm (wild)  As far as I know no one is able to breed any C. elaphus bigger than 86mm in Japan.  I would think if any one can breed them big would be the Japs. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2011 8:06:33 GMT -8
WOW 
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Post by bichos on Apr 17, 2011 2:55:25 GMT -8
Although Cyclommatus metallifer is easy to breed but C. elaphus, C. chewi and C. imperator monguilloni are still impossible to produce any huge sizes in captivity breeding. Even the Japanese finds it hard to produce any reasonable sizes in captivity. I'm wandering why? ? Same reason you can easily breed Rhyssonotus nebulosus and not the other species such as polytus, jugularis etc... as you correcctly pointed out in a different thread. metallifer is a lowlands stag whereas mongullioni, imerator, chewi, montanellus are highland species and are thus not yet suited to breeding with the mediums we have available:( |
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Post by lucanidae25 on Apr 17, 2011 16:51:12 GMT -8
I think Cyclommatus is a little bit different to our Rhyssonotus because you can still get the Cyclommatus female to lay eggs but our Rhyssonotus female wouldn't even lay any eggs. I think again it's to do with tempertures at night. It has to be low.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Jun 7, 2011 7:31:08 GMT -8
But it's not illegal to travel to overseas and catch them live yourself and keep them live untill you have to kill them and bring them back to your own country.
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Post by nomihoudai on Jun 7, 2011 7:38:34 GMT -8
Of course it is illegal too, importing is importing...when you cross the border you import/export.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Jun 7, 2011 16:11:35 GMT -8
It's totally legal to bring back dried specimens as long as it's not CITES or live into Australia. I've done it for so many years now.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Jun 7, 2011 16:57:48 GMT -8
I guess it depends which country you live in but nothing going to stop you from moving to a different city like Hong Kong where it's totally legal to import or export live insects as long as it's not CITES or (Chalcosoma caucasus or Xylotrupes gideon). Hong Kong and Japan is best country to live in when it comes to collecting insects. I was lucky enough to see a lot of live materials especialy Lucanidae in my live time but sadly none of them live long enough on my hands. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2015 11:56:37 GMT -8
I've just managed to obtain a C. metallifer from peleng @ 93.84mm. not the largest ever but still nice.
also a stunning C. imperator @ 82mm
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