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I did a couple of transactions with Avantis and it was always a pleasure. I highly recommend doing business with him.

Ian, do I have to call you my home hog, or is you still my home dawg?

To be quite honest, common names are for lazy people. I really think it sounds dumb when people reffer to their mantids as "Flower mantis" or "Chinese" - just how many flower mimicking or Chinese mantids there are? You have to be more precise that that.

No such problems so far. I'm expecting to see first sub-adult females soon.

I have three adult P. affinis females for sale, all of them molted into adult about 10 days ago. The price for one is 12$, for all 3 only 30$. I ship only to European countries.

Well, in Poland mantis rearing is basically dead. Two years ago, when I jumped on the bandwagon, it looked to be growing fast, I was kinda amazed by the influx of interesting species and all the opportunities. Now this hobby is almost dead. I remember when I could sell nice amounts of nymphs at...

This is just shocking, how can someone stoop so low?

From 20C to 40C, I let them pick their spot. I feed them only on flies.

One female molted today - she is kinda big... Some green and purple is beginning to show here and there, but I think she needs 2-3 more for those colors to be fully visible. I promise to take some pictures of her once that happens.

Ian, I stand by what I said - I still think that mods should put a heat on scammers, rather than trying to come off as bozos by banning users for innocent jokes.

That ain't a bad reason - they are huge, beautiful, and their threat display is unparalleled among mantids - they are the Ferrari of the mantis world, they should not be sold at the same prices as Sphodromantis. If Ferrari was as cheap as Wolksvagen Beetle, then it would lose all it's luster -...

Because it's arguably the most impressive species in culture? Besides, I think that all hard to keep species should be expensive to repell amateurs who don't know anything else apart from collecting WC mantids in their gardens and occasionally rearing Tenodera or Hierodula type thing.

I know I'm not gonna get any love for saying this, but I don't care. If Villosa indeed scammed all those people, then I wonder who is to blame - the gullible users of this community, or the lenient mods. I got warned not to do deals with that user over a year ago, from several members, and I...

This is just another lesson for those who want to pay less, instead of dealing with renowned breeders - who charge more, but who don't do you in the backseat of a Volkswagen.

Got no nymphs, but an adult pair - I intend to mate them 4-5 days fro now.

No way... this is just riddiculous... What the buck is going on here? I know that lately this forum has been pestered by a bunch of scammers, but this one takes the cake...

I could not bare... this movie is just scarry bad. I don't know were all that positive reception comes from, cause this film was whack!

Relax, Gepetto - they are doing just fine now, I'll put more twigs there soon.

You remember The Unholy Communion topic? The guy who left me them nymphs two months ago did it again - but this time he basically did not procure any food for those nymphs. I was unable to provide enough flies to sate them for about a week, and there were constant fights over food - I think a...

Hold your horses! First I got to ensure that they molt into adult with no problems, and then it will still be a longshot... But so far I have not had any mismolts or deaths since weaker nymphs died at L1/L2, so I guess I'm doing just fine.