The Newest Member to my Family (Uromastyx)

[DustytheDusky]

Everyone meet Onyx, the newest member of my growing family of Critters
Onyx is a Uromastyx that I recently purchased at a Reptile Expo this past weekend. He has joined the crew in the Critter room away from Dusty and the Cats. He shares that room with a Rose Hair Tarantula, a Vietemese Centipede, two Giant African Millipides, 2 Beetles (also newly acquired), a Leopard Gecko, and a Bearded Dragon.

And here is the Male of the two Beetles we have acquired as well:

 

[Kiwibird]

Onyx is gorgeous! Is he an adult or will he be getting bigger?

Best not let him get near his "roommates" though, he may find them to be tasty snacks Did you catch the beetles or buy them? How long do they live? I have to say, more power to you with the invertebrates..... I usually trap and release critters like that outside when they make their ways indoors. Can't say I'd have one as a long term resident

 

[JerseyWendy]

Onyx is BEAUTIFUL!!!! Love his enclosure, too.

And that is one super cool Beetle. Does the female look differently?

WOW, you've got a Vietnamese Centipede? Would it be too much trouble to ask for a picture? Those guys are HUGE, aren't they? Aren't they big enough to eat a small rodents? :32:

 

[Kiwibird]

WOW, you've got a Vietnamese Centipede? Would it be too much trouble to ask for a picture? Those guys are HUGE, aren't they? Aren't they big enough to eat a small rodents? :32:

Please put a warning on that post before the picture so those of us *sensitive* to those creatures can advert out eyes:52:!

I was attacked in my bed one night by a 6 or so inch long centipede when I was in high school (and no, it was NOT an escaped pet, just one of the horrible native things that lives in Arizona). It bit the crap out of my arm, and my arm swelled up like a balloon. It was seriously one of the most traumatizing moments in my life to wake up to a living nightmare in my bed. Just thinking about centipedes is making me start to panic I suppose they aren't as scary behind glass where you know where they are, but my experience with them was negative.

 

[DustytheDusky]

The female Beetle doesnt have a horn. Below is a picture on the Male and Female. The Male is in my boyfriends hand and the female in the soil. This is when he is first introducing them to their new habitat. It is not the best picture. You can see (sorta) that the female does not have a horn as the male does.

The Beetles are my boyfriends project so I honestly dont know too much about them. I can tell you that they are adults. He plans on breeding them. Right now they are still in their "winter Hybernation" meaning that they burrow under their substrate until the season warms up and they they come to the surface to breed. Being as they are kept in a very warm room of our apartment we expect they will be coming out of hybernation shortly.

And here is a picture of the Centipede. The Veitemese Centipede is a very agressive insect. (Again one of my boyfriends critters)

In regards to "Tasty snacks", Kiwibird, My bearded Dragon, Mya, is Twice Onyx's size.

 

[DustytheDusky]

The centipede and the tarantula have large/ heavy mesh lids on their tanks and I made my boyfriend put weights on them as I am also Petrified of them!

 

[RavensGryf]

Ooh, Onyx is pretty cool! and the beetles are so exotic! Wow, interesting collection!

 

[JerseyWendy]

WOW, you've got a Vietnamese Centipede? Would it be too much trouble to ask for a picture? Those guys are HUGE, aren't they? Aren't they big enough to eat a small rodents? :32:

Please put a warning on that post before the picture so those of us *sensitive* to those creatures can advert out eyes:52:!

I was attacked in my bed one night by a 6 or so inch long centipede when I was in high school (and no, it was NOT an escaped pet, just one of the horrible native things that lives in Arizona). It bit the crap out of my arm, and my arm swelled up like a balloon. It was seriously one of the most traumatizing moments in my life to wake up to a living nightmare in my bed. Just thinking about centipedes is making me start to panic I suppose they aren't as scary behind glass where you know where they are, but my experience with them was negative.

April, I'm so sorry. Now I feel horrible for asking for a photo. I didn't mean to make you relive that sheer night of terror.

The centipede and the tarantula have large/ heavy mesh lids on their tanks and I made my boyfriend put weights on them as I am also Petrified of them!

Thank you so much for the photos! Gorgeous critters!!!

....I wonder off quite guilt ridden now....

 

[Terry57]

Wow, what an amazing collection you have! Although I must say that the centipede made me shudder...I can't imagine waking up to...that.
Onyx is gorgeous and the beetles are quite cool!

 

[Kiwibird]

The beetles are nice enough (pretty colors) and I *LOVE* your beardie! Ours got to be big enough she would eat baby mice along with the bugs. Will Onyx ever get up to that size or is he full grown?

And I did look, and my skin is still crawling- that centipede is terrifying. Looks really similar to the "giant desert centipedes" native to the southwest that bit me. The actual one that attacked me was..."taken care of" by my dad (smashed with a work boot), but I found this picture of one online and they look a whole lot like your boyfriends-

 

[DustytheDusky]

From the research I did, Onyx will get around 10-13 inches in length. He is an adolescent right now as far as I can tell.

My beardie LOVES live food- Crickets, hornworms, mealworms, etc. Though she only gets live food about once a week. She usually gets an awesome collard green salad daily with squash and endive with Calcium supplement.

 

[bob1]

I also have uromastyx. They are really awesome reptiles!