Tiwaripotamon from Guangxi, China

[chaohuang]

The pinnacle of this field trip: This Tiwaripotamon sp. was found inside a limestone cave. It's slender ambulatory legs, yet pigmented body and well developed eyes suggest a facultative cavernicolous lifestyle.
   
   

[Ollie Mengedoht]

Beautiful! Yes, it looks a bit special for a solely cave dweller Thx for showing us!

[tomarrow]

looks reeeallly beautiful.
besides the great colour i like the look of the legs and thosw white spots on the claws a lot.

Do you also keep them or was your trip "just" about taking pictures?

[chaohuang]

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I collected 3 live specimens. They will be fixed in alcohol when they die of old age… But hopefully they will molt soon and i'll be able to check the male first pleopod.

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[Ollie Mengedoht]

They will be fixed in alcohol when they die of old age…

That's a GREAT method of conserving specimen! I would promote that, it seems a much better solution than fixating live specimen in the field (although naturally it is not always possible to keep the animals alive for such a long time).

That's really cool!

[chaohuang]

They will be fixed in alcohol when they die of old age…

That's a GREAT method of conserving specimen! I would promote that, it seems a much better solution than fixating live specimen in the field (although naturally it is not always possible to keep the animals alive for such a long time).

That's really cool!

Haha, I took extra care handling these guys because they were so hard to get. I had to craw all the way in the cave, very tiring. I hope to breed these, it's been a few days now and they seem to do ok in captivity!

[tomarrow]

i guess they are indangered, right ? therefore it would be really great if they would breed.

so they actually lived in a limestone cave?
what kind of things are they eating there ? what do you feed them ?

do you also keep them in those plasic-containers u showed us a couple of weeks ago ?

i am just asuming that a cave-like terrarium could look so awesome !

[chaohuang]

i guess they are indangered, right ? therefore it would be really great if they would breed.

so they actually lived in a limestone cave?
what kind of things are they eating there ? what do you feed them ?

do you also keep them in those plasic-containers u showed us a couple of weeks ago ?

i am just asuming that a cave-like terrarium could look so awesome !

They have a very wide distribution, so i don't think they are endangered. I assume they come out in the rainy season and reside in caves in the dry season. Little is known about their habits… they probably eat other cave dwelling arthropods.

Yes i keep them in those containers and feed them meal worms and crickets etc.

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