Beautiful pictures!!

About the mites on beetles, you can wash them with tooth brush and water...
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wp5k-tnd/wash.jpg

Because I'm a true beginner with Lucanidae and Dynastidae, I prefer to start with local species...

About mites, I didn't have problems in past but I had only two species.
I dont want mites at home because they are dangerous for my fruitflies production (livefood for my frogs)
So now, with more ...

Thanks for the welcoming & the full access :)

Of course, I speak french. Dutch is very difficult for me, I have to use the google translator :oops:

About amphibians, I began with newts and salamanders when I was a teenager.
During the last 10 years, I had various tropical frogs in my terrariums ...

Doei,

My name is Eric, I'm 34 years old and I live in south of France.
I am very sorry to not speak dutch.. :oops:

I work into horticulture and I breed tropical frogs since years.
I started in the beetles breeding hobby with few pachnoda & cetonia in the past but I had to stop.

I re start since ...