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    FS : UK baby ferrets!

    8 baby ferrets, 10 weeks old this weekend. (19th july) Currently we have... 3 sandy females 3 sandy males 1 albino female 1 albino male We are located in Feltham, Middlesex, UK. Right near Heathrow airport. Selling for £10 each! Contact if you are interested, thanks.
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    Sand or Soil?

    We use soil because its much more aesthetically pleasing. Never though of using sand though, I may try this if I get an egyptian mantis. The only problem ive had with soil is with one of my scorpions, which is kind of irrelevant as the substrate is much deeper and more moist. I only ever fed...
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    UK owners... Where do you get your mantids?

    I love mantids but I find it hard to find them in the UK, usually its down to pure luck that the local reptile shops may have a couple in, or eBay but im not a huge fan of ordering them off there. Anyone in the UK know of any sites / places with a decent selection of mantids or is that just how...
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    Double kill

    Thats cool... I've only ever seen that once, strangely enough it was my "blind" (no compound eyes) mantid with two crickets in each arm, but one escaped cos he only had it by the back leg.
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    GLUE GUN! HELP!

    I thought you'd glued a mantid to your head or something
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    First enclosure opinions.

    Ive recently started putting my larger mantids (sub-adult / adult) in faunariums with twigs, leaves, etc. Which i think look quite nice and the faunarium lid is very easy for them to cling to. However with nymphs I prefer to keep them in livefood tubs stood up longways with some twigs, and the...
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    Eye problems

    Yeah thats exactly what happened to ours, but both eyes.
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    Eye problems

    One of my NZ mantids recently suffered a weird condition on his compound eyes. At first his eyes were obviously fine, the little "pupils" were visable and everything. Over time he developed dark patches on the upper part of each eye, which slowly blackened. I though he may recover after shed...
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