That looks so sad...
We cought our mice with pieces of bread with Nutella in the traps. Maybe its worth a try.

Holunder

Wow. I really enjoy your habitat pictures.

Welcome Tom,

wow, that looks professional. I love sowing cacti too.

kind regards
Holunder

Small cactus, big flower...
Gymnocalycium andreae

I started sowing cacti a year and a half ago. Since then I have sown many different seeds of rather smaller species and many of them have germinated wonderfully. I also bought some plants, then mostly two of a kind to produce seeds.

We have a "insect hotel" occupied with wild bees just beside our entrance door. They never made any trouble or were interested in us or our food. They are just doing their own business.

First, I would try to figure out what kind of bees you have. Where I live (Germany), most wild bees live alone or in smaller groups, are friendly and usually don't sting you.

lovely wreath of flowers

Thanks I´ll do that

They also look good. That's about the color most of my seedlings have, thanks for putting me at ease.

greenknight, do you think they still count as pink?
Escobaria missouriensis has some green tops with first spines and Glandulicactus looks slightly greenisch at the top.

nice green seedlings

Hi Keith and MikeInOz, on the next batch of seedlings I will definitely turn off the heating mat at night, then I will have about 27°C day /16-18°C night during germination. After using a little too high N fertilizer which caused some of my Astrophytum seedlings to burst, I now use an NPK 2.5+4+6 fe...

I found these older posts with some info which confuses me. https://cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=305942&hilit=lux#p305942 Iann wrote I have no idea what your setup is like, but etiolation is caused by insufficient light relative to other factors, most obviously to temperature. Warm night...

Thank you Keith, I have now supported them with some fine grit and will give them more light. My Luxmeter indicated they had around 4000 Lux, I could give them up to 8000 Lux. Is that too much?. Yes, they are funky species, I would be so sad if I killed them. Do you think that the red tint is a sign...