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All purchases have gone perfectly except for a USPS mess up, no fault of Mikhail. The Heirodulas, Ghosts, and Budwings (which he sent as a big surprise bonus) are all doing well. I am using this shipper for the fourth time. Highly recommend. Edit: This morning, my newest pets, the Double...

Ranitomeya, Thanks for that info. I take it you use an eye dropper then...is this a daily or weekly treat? Nancy

Ranitomeya, What sugar solution? Just for orchids? How do you provide this? Just curious because I hadn't read anything about sugar solution before this. Nancy

Hey all, Thank you all for your suggestions to help. I really have appreciated all the input and I know you all care about each and every mantid you have touched or you wouldn't have bothered. In spite of everything, he (Humpy) was not thriving enough to carry on and I felt worse trying to...

Well, he's still alive ten days after his mis-molt but I wouldn't say he is thriving. Even with the magnifier, I can't tell if his mouth opens and that is the clincher. I just don't have enough hands or good enough eyes! Ah, I'll get out my headlamp tomorrow! Wish I'd thought of it before...

Just having a little fun with you and I always enjoy your responses. Thanks for the help.

Salmonsaladsandwich, Okay, I'll add turning over the cage to my growing list of how to persuade a mantid to eat a boring roach. I got the sarcasm but my tongue-in-cheek mustamissedamark :stuart: And, I did not for a minute think you actually meant watermelon would make them pregnant...

Wait! I thought mantids loved these roaches! And I thought they were a good one to raise since they don't climb. (I can handle an escaped fly but I'd be in deep trouble if I "lost" a roach!) I don't mind handing my mantids food (whole or all mixed up) with tweezers or putting the mantid in a...

I just cleaned my small dubia colony. I read that you shouldn't have too many adult males as they fight and disrupt the females. I have about 200 roaches total (100 sub-adult and adult, and 100 purchased nymphs 3/4" and under.) So I counted the adult males as I moved them---43 adults, now 37...

mantisman 230, Mea culpa. :oops: Won't happen again!!!

S.S.S. and Mantidbro, So, I got an answer from ABDragons.com where I got my Dubia and "cleaner beetles." S.S.S., the beetles are the adult of Tenebrio obscurus or minimealworms. Apparently, baby lizards love them but I don't have any (although I have a grandson who really is pushing me to...

Ugh! So I bought some "cleaner beetles" (buffalo beetles?) to put in the Dubia roach bin. I read they wouldn't bother the roaches. I know that I sometimes get a couple of the beetles or larva in the wax worms I order so I thought maybe everyone uses them in their feeder insects. All was well...

rbird, I think I got the molt off---at least there's nothing hanging anymore. He can pick up his head now and turns to watch me (which is better that having his face planted on the floor!) He drinks water and I can see his mouth moving a bit, but does it open? Don't know. His left grabber arm...

Rick, my initial response when he arr. on Thurs. was like-minded but I was stopped by family as I headed to the freezer. mantisman 230, I get not wasting it, but it just feels like promoting cannibalism and feels creepy. Tammy, yes, I fed Gerber baby chicken to an old T. sinensis for months as...

rbird, Sorry you lost her but she really was a survivor and you did a fine job getting her so far that she laid a couple of ooths. I hope you get get nymphs.

My H. membranacea molted in transit and is a mess! His thorax is humped badly so his face drags which makes it hard to try feeding him honey or baby meat, his grabber arms are pretty much useless---don't know why, and he can only scuttle backwards. He still has unmolted skin stuck under his...

Oh, I am so saddened to hear that Gizmo has passed! We loved (and laughed) at her playing video games---can't tell you how many times we re-played them! Thank you so much for having such acceptance for a mantis that just jumped out of a box of lamps! I think you and your gf are very special...

Hey, I bought some of this Repashy bug Burger a couple of days ago. My Dubia roaches (couple hundred) never seemed to eat, except for roach jelly and grapes. Their dry chow (I have offered three kinds, incl. dry cat food.) never seemed to be eaten. So, I offered them a patty from the first...

Thomas, that's good to know, thanks. Nancy

She ate a BB fly today---I had to hand it to her after I messed it up a bit...but it works. Thanks! Salamanders??? I take it yours was an adult? Even if mine is possibly an L6 now, she is still so dainty and fragile looking! There is a photo of a pair of affinis in Orin's book--they look...