Whilst someone spreads out his crawling treasures on the ground, the person next to him starts up a refreshment stand; someone else offers roasted rice for the hungry customers and another sells beetle accessories. An absolute must for anyone who steps into the shop here are the sweet sugar cane stems that serve as nourishment for the animals. There are also colourful "beetle-leashes" to attach to the valuable warriors, wooden battlefields with an internal chamber in which the female Rhinoceros beetle is held for "motivation," and small, hand carved wooden beaters. These pencil-sized rods are as important to both trainers of the crawling gladiators as a whip is for a jockey.
With tense faces, they sit at the respective ends of the roughly metre long "arena". Each twirls his mini beater between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand and thereby produces a quick, drumming noise on the wooden battlefield that forces the beetles upon one another from behind. According to individual taste and persuasion, a small steel clip is also attached to the stick, which makes additional noise.