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Authors: Ursula Frederich, Werner Volland
ISBN-13: 9781575240459, ISBN-10: 1575240459
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Foreword | 7 | |
Preface | 8 | |
Introduction | 10 | |
Live Food for Vivarium Animals | 11 | |
Basic Considerations | 11 | |
The Significance of Live Food | 11 | |
Catching, Buying, Breeding | 12 | |
Feeding Live Food to Vivarium Animals | 12 | |
Food Animals and Conservation | 14 | |
Breeding Food Animals | 14 | |
Reasons for Breeding | 14 | |
Time and Material Requirements | 16 | |
Legal Aspects | 16 | |
Starting a Breeding Setup | 17 | |
Nutrition for Food Animals | 19 | |
Hygiene and Breeding Setups | 20 | |
Breeding Setups | 20 | |
Breeding Food Animals | 25 | |
Plankton | 25 | |
Freshwater Plankton | 26 | |
Ocean Plankton | 29 | |
Nematodes (Round Worms) | 31 | |
Vinegar Eels (Turbatrix silusiae and Turbatrix aceti) | 32 | |
Segmented Worms (Annelids) | 33 | |
White Worms (Enchytraeus albidus), Grindal Worms (Enchytraeus buchholzi) | 34 | |
Red Marsh Worms or Red Wrigglers (Lumbricus rubellus), Redworms or Compost Worms (Eisenia foetida), Dendrobaena Earthworms (Dendrobaena spec.) | 37 | |
Mollusks | 40 | |
Grove Snail (Cepaea nemoralis), Garden Snail (Cepaea hortensis) | 41 | |
Giant African Land Snail (Achatina fulica) | 44 | |
Crustaceans | 48 | |
Large Water Flea (Daphnia magna), Water Flea (Daphnia pulex), Russian Daphnia (Moina macrocopa) | 50 | |
Brine Shrimp (Artemia salina) | 52 | |
Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus), Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber), Pillbug (Armadillidium nasatum), Pillbug (Armadillidium vulgare) | 56 | |
Insects | 60 | |
Springtails (Collembola) | 61 | |
White Springtail (Folsomia candida), Blind Springtail (Sinella coeca) | 62 | |
Cockroaches | 66 | |
Argentine cockroach (Blaptica dubia), Death's Head cockroach (Blaberus craniifer) | 67 | |
Surinam cockroach (Pycnoscelus surinamensis), Green Banana Cockroach (Panchlora nivea) | 67 | |
Orthopterans: Crickets, Migratory Locusts, and Stick Insects | 76 | |
House cricket (Acheta domesticus),* Field Cricket (Gryllus assimilis), Black Cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus), Tropical House Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus), African Cave Crickets (Phaeophilacris bredoides) | 77 | |
African Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria), Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria), South American Locust (Schistocerca paranensis), Moroccan Locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus) | 89 | |
Indian Stick Insect (Carausius morosus), Annam Stick Insect (Baculum extradentatum) | 99 | |
Beetles (Coleoptera) | 104 | |
Lesser Mealworm Beetle (Alphitobius diaperinus) | 104 | |
Yellow Mealworm Beetle (Tenebrio molitor) | 108 | |
King Mealworm Beetle/Superworm (Zophobas morio) | 114 | |
Bean Weevil (Acanthoscelides obtectus) | 118 | |
Rose Weevil (Pachnoda butana) | 122 | |
Flies (Diptera) | 125 | |
Small Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster), Large Fruit Fly (Drosophila funebris) | 125 | |
Large Wingless Fruit Fly (Drosophila hydei) | 125 | |
Housefly (Musca domestica), Little Housefly (Fannia canicularis), Blowfly (Calliphora erythrocephala), GreenBottle Fly (Lucilia caesar), Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga spec.) | 133 | |
Butterflies (Lepidoptera) | 143 | |
Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella), Lesser Wax Moth (Achroea grisella) | 144 | |
Mammals | 148 | |
House Mouse (Mus musculus musculus), Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus) | 149 | |
Sources | 160 | |
References | 161 | |
Image Sources | 173 | |
Index | 174 |