I believe Panterapets.com should be the standard in this community. I've ordered from quite a few different companies already and she has been by far the best. Always ships quickly and packaged perfectly. I never understood the seemingly lack of customer service in this community. I don't know...
I unfortunately have not had a good experience ordering from mantisplace.com. Which is disheartening as I like their prices and and selection. I've ordered 3 different times and all times have been poorly handled. I always order the Friday or weekend before. I don't receive updates on when it...
I just figured since she is native that her life cycle would be the same as all the others in the area. Which I thought they died around December. Maybe she is egg bound. Don't really know if I can do anything about that.
She is hanging from the screen now and looks normal, but that was really...
So I've had a wild caught Stagmomantis limbata for about a month or so. The mantis that got me in to mantids. About a week and a half ago I bred her with some wild caught males.
Today I was doing everyone's feedings. Then I noticed that she was walking around like she was drunk. Everytime she...
So I decided on getting the green house and running heating cables through the shelves. Hopefully it works out. Couldn't really find any other options.
So I have been thinking of ways to keep all my individual mantids warm. I thinking of getting a portable green house with those plastic covers. So I can heat all my deli cups and tanks or whatnot. Just can't decide on how to warm them.
What do you guys use to keep all your mantids toasty...
Thank you all again. The fly trapper is a good option. Going to try and rotate pupae first. I'll contact Kermit if I have any issues. Thank you for offering to help me out too Kermit
Ok guys thanks for the help. I just reordered some flies. Going to try what you guys mentioned.
Say have you guys ever tried to catch flies from outside? Maybe some kind of live trap you can throw in the fridge when you want to feed.
Everything I've read said bugs like that are ok as a treat or whatever, but not as a staple. I did fruit flies, then house, flies, then will move up to bb flies. Getting down the routine is a little more difficult.
My problem is sometimes it takes days for them to hatch or they don't hatch in the amount I need. So for the mantids I have. I need 21 bb flies and about 70 house flies per week. I also want to keep shipping down. At usually a $10 shipping cost each time the flies can add up fast.
So I need...