Search results

I was checking on the mantis and spraying them some water when I found pitufina dead!!! Here are some pics... it looks totally bizarre, her eyes are black, her claws and upper torso are green, the legs look average green/brown BUT the belly is like... mmm God I dont even know how to explain, it...

Okay sooo Im having the same toruble than agent, the only dif is that mine got injured 2 molts away, whn he got sticked to a piece of diurex andlost a claw, one leg and well, lets just say he was pretty bad, after the last molt, he got his leg back BUT the claw was still broken. He molted...

I ve been checkin for 2 weeks how to sex the nymphs... but they all seem to be males... all of 60 nymphs of lineola I have left are males... is it even possible or should I wait until they are adults to reafirm? I ve checked one by one... I still cant believe it... Im having time off tomorrow...

So... I got 2 mini snails to start my super aquarium with, I only got 2 smails and some algae so far BUT this appeared on the algae 3 days ago... anyone knows if they are eggs or not??? The next pic is a pic of one of the snails... Thanks! the eggs...

Okay so my ex fav mantis, Margot just threw something that came out of her butt to my hand... that was pee right? just what I needed one insect peeing on me residual waste of processed crickets.. how awesome......

Im so excited!!!!!!!!!! Right now, the biggest Lineola that I have, Margot, besides turning lastnight into L5 and aparently is a guy, is right now eating the biggest cricket he ve ever had :D 4 times the size of his belly. Mmmm ok he aparently just stopped eating, and hurt the crickets back...

Okay after all the struggling of the last 4 weeks with the breeding, housing, molting, cannibalism, feeding in general, breeding the food and well, just the issues in general, I stil got 60 lineolas left: L2: Ermenegildo tigger Dali Kendra Jonas Baloo Gordon Holly L3: Gorda Kat...

Helloooooooooooo, well Yesterday I bought some cricket warms (?) but i got no idea what i ahve to do... should i add some water? to make the dirt wet or should i add maybe mmm i dont know... stuff with protein? I got no idea what to do with them... does any of you guys breed crickets or know...

Sooooo againwith the molting process, I got some sphodromantis lineola and they all hatched on jun 4, now... My question is... some of them started molting on june the 13 and by now, most of them are L3, BUT there are a few lil ones that are still L1... which from what I read its not normal (its...

I named all my mantis to have a better control over them, to check how much they eat, how big they grow, how fast they molt, and so far the numbrs are going good. just today I had an anormous problem. Kendra ( yes after a Hugh Hefners ex lol, I also got a Holly and a Bridget) started molting...

1.-I ve read some of the last posts, and aparently some of the mantis that just molted for the very first time had diarrea they were born on june 4 BUT there are still some mantis in L1. I have everything documented, from the very moment they were born, i numbered them and last week I actually...

Ok, as I stole Tonys post to discuss the idea of making a larger one for several mantis.... So far I only got some prices: Tank- 90 usd homemade by a guy my dad knows Special light bulb - 50 usd from any aquarium Special lamp - 40 usd from any aquarium The thing that makes mist 30 usd from...

After checking out Tonys perfect massive enclousure for ONE nymph I felt terrible about having mine in plastic houses with no decoration, so I just decided I want to build a massive terrarium for the 80 sphodromantis lineolas and another one for the pseudovrates peruvianas. My problem is, BOTH...

So, I was feeding the mantis before going to the movies and well, the one one sphodromantis lineola that is already an L1 :D is doing this: NOTE: the only time I sawe a mantis doing that she was trying to lick the floor which made me asume she was thirsty, I gave her water and the story was...

I thought this would NEVER happend to me... Having and insect in my mouth and knowing it is alive and swallowing it... The story starts with me (totally unexperienced) trying to use a "sucker" -a lil tube with a sponge at the end so I could suck up the insects and then just release them on each...

Hey.... OKay... I finally gopt the mix of the fruit flies with the warms... some flies were already live but the retards from fedex aparently dont know what THIS SIDE UP means and they killed everything that seemed to be alive... So anyways, I got the mix, I got SOME warms alive but I need to...

Hey, Here are some pics of the gorgeous sphodromantis lineolas and some aparently pseudovrates peruviana :S wrong ootheca I guess :P anyways here are some pics of the babes I got 108 sphodromantis lineola and 14 of what seem to be sp peruviana... :)

I dont think Id ever been this stressed out... 3 oothecas hatched today... one is done hatching, but 2 oothecas of sphodromantis lineola are hatching since 1 pm today and so far I have around 80 nymphs :S and I got no food Im stressed out, Last week I tried for 5 days to recolect flies, i bought...

Hey, I am new as some of you know, but I stupidly bought 7 oothecas... 2 of sphodromantis lineola, 4 of acontista concinna and 1 musonia surinama... but I cant have them all here, so I kinda need to get rid of the acontista concinna and the musonia surinama, the problem is that they might be...

Hey, Im about to get some mantis and I have an idea of how to feed them, but for some reason there are no topics nor information about giving them water? Do they need water at all? How am I supossed to give them water? ANY answer could help, Thanks!