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One of my Limbatas had this in his eye when I brought him home from the wild and now it has gone away. Grats on the ooth! Although maybe not fertilized.. I think you said you only had one Chinese. That's cool anyways, now you learned something and have a souvenir. ;)

Ahh I remember the nice cool days up in "The Bay". Always sweatshirt weather. Used to live in Alameda. B) Welcome and have fun with your ooth hatching.

I'm experimenting with different ways on how to keep mine alive longer in their tubs. I'm trying "Water crystals" right now and no container for their food so they access it easier and cannot drown in a drop of water. Just figured out how to stop them from releasing while I feed them to my...

About the images.. back the camera way off until the Ghost Mantis is in focus well. Then what you do is go into Microsoft paint (or equivalent) and crop the image so the ghost fills the image. Then you should get yourself a nice large clear shot in focus :) Takes a little practice but you...

OK I can maybe do the little cute fuzzy ones. lol Not the tarantulas from my old house though that used to be found roaming the floor when we woke up in the morning or the middle of the night. Also I think I got bit up the other day by a spider who made its way into my motorcycle jacket, half...

A couple of very cool species! I missed out on the gambians. Never seen the chaeta until now.

Good find! I have been finding many here too lately! We have four large Limbata nymphs now! I keep trying to find a male, they all look female to me!!!

Nice resolution. Too many eyes! Oooohhgh I I dunno man I've always been deathly afraid of the spiders. I have seen a few little jumping spiders around Cali in my days though. They are usually little tiny fuzzy ones just like those (or not maybe for all I know!) I think mantids are helping me...

Woah one of my Dubia molted and turned white last night in my chameleon feeder cup. :blink: I think it's now either an adult female with budwings or a sub adult male with budwings.

I had tape on the lid covering a hole so flies couldn't get out. It molted on the lid and got it head and legs stuck I think. :blink: It was still only a little guy though. Learned real quick not to tape anything with mantids!

I have increasingly been adding "privacy barriers" just for this sort of thing. Several of my cups have it now, although I don't plan to keep "everyone" in cups for long, It seems to help slightly. Either my towels will drape completely down one side or I glue a piece of paper outside the...

Nice one! :) I hope my Chinese makes it to that size. As long as I keep the tape off their containers this time I think I should have a slight amount of better success. :wacko:

I think they team up and talk about me. :lol: I don't see "anybody" getting too wild about being next to others. They're all just kinda checking each other out I think. I do feel bad when one is striking at the others food though from a different container or a fly walks by outside of...

Dude I used to have huge tarantulas in my house in Riverside. You must have them too being so closed to there. Crazy little spiders! I'm definitely scared of those things. Nothing that bites over here..

LOL loose feeders drive me crazy. At least they aren't all at the foot of your bed. I have some superworms crawling all over the chameleon cages. They are very agile little boogers! They can get out of smaller holes than the crickets can from chameleon perches too. You wouldn't think they...

Flip the Dubias on their backs and they will struggle to flip over for a long time and make themselves noticed without being able to run away. They are very slow so virtually no chance of them escaping and colonizing your house and they are easy to catch. I have those for my chamies but have...

Thanks for the pupae! Still learning to control these buggers! See you next week for more and more mantids or supplies!

OK I threw four into a one foot butterfly cube today! So far no cannibalism but I did get a couple half threat displays! First time I saw that with my gongys. hehe Dude about your mixing room I need to come over and play! :o I could get busy like Daft Punk up in there. :clap: I've been...

Ooh a "Tripod" Orchid! My mom had a pure bred lab like that once from a litter of puppies! Tripods always have the most character. Hehe

Ah yes, The little Limbatas like the lights a lot too because they were wild caught and came from the sun lit bushes. I was about to let them go again but my sister just found a male now for the females so we will actually have a shot at reproducing many more of them! Time to get back to...