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that sucks! wish u couldve gotten a pic of it when it was pink Joe

hey everone! does anyone keep any ball pythons? i bought mine a week ago and have been holding it alot! Its 3 months old and eating fine and everything but i noticed it getting less as round as before, it was the fattest one out of the selection when i first bought it and i'm wondering if its...

Great pics rick! those are really cool looking mantids! :D Joe

I agree! these mantida are my personal favorite mantids! i have some pics of my desiccata and past ones i kept below hope you enjoy them! i was gonna put more pics but i didnt want dial up users to suffer lol Subadult pair subadult male adult female Adult Pair funny look Joe

My last attempt to breed tamolanica tamolana was a failure but this 2nd attempt was a success :D the breeding process went very well, mating was no problem at all and the male jumped on the female's back in an instant! but the only problem was the cannibalism after mating and the long wait for...

Thats cool that everything went well! what i usually do when theres not enough room in the cage, and the mantis is on one of the plants, i take the plant with the mantis on it out of the cage and put it on a table and this gives the mantis enough room to molt. this is also a gives a better view...

ah gotchya, if its Iris Oratoria then look for a red-orange spot on the underside of its abdomen near the 2nd to last otherwise its a california mantids or at least another species Joe

Nice catch rick! What you have there is a california mantis :D Heres a pic of one http://bugguide.net/node/view/5678 and heres the page with the pics of california mantids http://www.bugguide.net/node/view/7985. but if i'm wrong, and if its possibly a Iris oratoria, look for a red-orange spot...

thats what i do too! :D it works really well. Joe

all i do is put mashed banana in the fruit fly's container and thats all, eggs are laid normally and the maggots prevent molding. all i smell in the container is yeast for some reason. and i also feed my crickets peice of banana they love it! Joe

i dont quit know how much i spent really lol probably around $2000 or more :? Joe

i dunno, maybe its just the gutload i'm feeding my crickets, the mantids tht eat them seem to get black spots when they keep eating my crickets, one pair of each tht has been off crickets had their eye spots disappear but as a i said it could be my guttload, with lots of protien and extra...

do u feed your grandis just crickets? j/w Joe

I know its not a pic of a mantis eating a small animal lol but it ias a pic of a Adult female Tamolanica Tamolana eating a chinese mantis. just thought i wanted to share it while the grousome pics are being enjoyed :P Joe

the only male lobata died by a female i have 4 female loabat and no males, and uless i get a male lobata or 2, i'll try to mate the lobatas with one male dessi, its worth a try if i cant get a male lobata, and who knows? what if it works? i might not but i'm willing to try. what is there to...

I'm just wondering if desiccata and lobata would succesfuly produce offspring. has any one tried it? i'm planning on tying it since they r both deroplatys and both the spiny flower mantis and indian flower mantis made offspring, gave me the idea to try. let me know what u all think :D Joe

recieved a whole bunch of mantids from yen! they all arrive alive amazingly thanks to yens great packaging :D . will always buy and trade from him in the future! Thanks yen:D Joe

Here are some pics below of mantids i got from yen! :D hope you enjoy them! Deroplatys Lobata Idolomantis Diabolica Euchomenella Macrops Tamolanica Tamolana Joe

I sexed mine at their 1st molt, the way u can tell male and female is looking at their sixth segment, males have one of those flower lobes while females just have a bare 6th segment, or lump if very young. Joe

haha yea they can be aggresive if raised that way by either eating big bugs, or being fed on a big appetite. mine was just fed big bugs, heres a pic of my L2 PW eating a butteryfly, it put up a good fight :lol: the butterfly was knocking the mantis around but the mantis still kept ahold of it...