Anyone know anything about Green Diving Beetles?

Neg2LED

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Hi guys,
recently when i was at my local museum, i came upon these little guys.

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Green diving beetles - arent they so cool? they look AWESOME in real life (alive). they swim around with their back legs and breathe thru their @$$3$.

Does anyone have any experience with these? i was looking to get some as pets (they cant be that hard to feed, there's prolly like some kind of food for sea snails or something you can use, if they actually NEED feeding (its possible that they live off algae))

Thanks!

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The_LED_Museum

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I believe they're carniverous, and feed on other aquatic insects/insect larvae.
Introducing snail food into the tank is likely to be an excersize in futility. :/
 
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