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I believe you Rick... I never had issues with crickets that I had raised myself. Still, crickets had nothing to do with my R.B. Female dying of fright.

Well I must say I have been very disappointed in the larger mantid species... for their size, the big guys sure seem awfully fragile. Especially Rhombodera Basilis & Clinea Humeralis. After reading time after time about what beasts they are I have been unpleasantly surprised at how easy they...

Yes... finding girls who like bugs and other "nerdy" hobbies is gonna be a major task... good to hear you have found one... now just try not to come off as "too into" her or you might scare her off and end up searching once more. My wife absolutely hates bugs... to the point of phobia and...

Funneling them into a rinsed out 20 oz soda bottle works great... then just tap them out into the mantis enclosures.

:rolleyes:

Yeah... she had them in there for a pretty long time without us knowing. She ate alot!! She was huge! We appropritely named her Tank because of her size and it fit since the male was named Dozer for his burrowing abilities. We were constantly having to put crickets in with her. The crickets...

Last September my younger brother bought an adult male emperor scorpion. After about a month he decided to get him a mate and bought what we were told to be an adult female of the species from a pet store out of town. However when they were put in the same enclosure the female tried deperately...

One or two ounces max... like half a shot glass... but it really isnt necessary if you use a warm water / yeast solution and pour it in top of the culture after you mix it up and add it to the container. It will absorb from the top and establish itself before any mold has a chance to. I'd also...

Its so easy you can do it by mistake... I got tired of buying crickets for my brother's scorpions, so I decided what the heck and threw in 2 dozen into each tank along with some dog food to keep them alive for a while. They eventually diminish as the stupid things venture one by one down into...

Kind of off topic, but I really get a big kick out of trying to decipher the british slang you UK guys throw around. The comment about looking right muppet made me ROFL.

That too.... :P But I meant "word"... as in "what he said!!" :lol:

Well mine have become a tragic testiment to how mantids really are... I started with 35+ and by the first molt I had lost 10 to sudden hatchling death syndrome. Then, around the second molt the time when they were all going through their second molt, they completely ignored their fruit flies and...

Both of my milk powder cultures with hydei were a success. The one with Melanogaster was a failure.... my fault tho <_< ... we had a hot day and consequently the temp inside the garage and minifridge I keep the cultures in rose above 100. The high temp killed all the parent flies in...

I just recently had an explosion of baby crickets within my scorpion enclosure. Now I have more pinheads than I know what to do with lol.

Werd. :huh:

Very sorry to hear that :( Glue guns are awesome. There are so many quick easy things you can make for this hobby with a glue gun and a little imagination. If you keep mantids for any reason, go buy one now. :)

HA!!! Your dragon style kung fu is no match for my praying mantis style!!!

LOLZ :lol: :P Thanks, Rob. I'll check that out... I showed them to my old college biology professor and she was pretty intrigued by them. She is gonna let me come up to the school sometime and look at them under a disecting scope. If Im not 100% sure by looking at the leg lobes, then I'll...