Recent content by LilGreenPuffer

Nope, not getting frass-faced - happily nomming his Christmas dinner right here at home! Maybe I should have shared that Kahlua milkshake my mom made last night.

Wow, my other male mantis eats way more. Huh. Well, anyway, thank you, everyone! I think the crisis is over. :D

Oooooh, he nommed a few bites of that fly! It's dead now, with one wing and a chunk of abdomen gone! So if it's a male, then I should expect this sort of eating pattern from now on?

Thanks. :) What's frass? The only non-feeder bugs I find in my room are tiny spiders on the walls, giant crickets with huge creepy legs that can't get into the cage, and the very occasional silverfish in a box in my closet or under the bed. I used to find tiny flying insects that I think have...

So I left the mantis fly-less for a couple days, and tonight I gave it one fly. It's been a couple hours so far.

It's possible - I didn't count how many I added - but the mantid's abdomen stayed flat. Maybe it did eat a little of that first fly I mentioned in the OP.

...And another poo sighting. How come it's pooping after two weeks of not eating?

Humidity is a bit over 70%, and if mantis poo is 1-2mm long and dark brown, then we have a sighting.

I released all the flies in its enclosure outside, except for one slowpoke missing a wing. I stabbed this one on a toothpick and offered it to the mantis; it wasn't interested, even after a good minute of trying. I cleaned out the enclosure and replaced the eco-complete with paper towels and the...

I've never actually seen a mantis drink, and I've owned a total of four. I haven't seen poo, but the substrate is coconut husk, so I wouldn't be able to see it anyway. It's late now, but tomorrow I'll release all the flies outside and put down paper towels so I can watch for poo. I did try...

I haven't checked its gender yet. I can't see the abdomen very well because it's so flat right now. I guess I'll just keep waiting - as long as it's acting normal, there's really nothing to diagnose anyway... Thanks, folks.

My ghost mantis went without food for probably two weeks due to a ridiculously hard time getting ahold of flies. I did offer it crickets, which it has occasionally eaten in the past, but it didn't work. It had its adult molt during this time, too. I made sure to keep it well-watered, though...

Got it all fixed. Thanks for the recommendations, guys - hopefully the seller I chose will be better than those first two! And thanks for the heads-up about my mistake with SpiderPharm.

Thanks, guys! Does anyone know whether the shipping calculator in mantispets.com's checkout is calculating for Priority/2-day shipping? There's only one option when calculating, so I am hoping that's it.

Hi, I'm in dire need of bluebottles, ASAP. My last batch of houseflies died off, and my ghost just molted, grew 3x, and is hungry. I contacted SpiderPharm and got no response, and I'm hesitant to order from MantisPlace because they messed up both of my previous orders (wrong address, then forgot...