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  1. nasty bugger

    Orchid Mantis Tapping?

    rumpa bum bum rumpa bum bum rumpa bum bum he needs to learn a whole song Interesting, never seen them breed let alone give a body massage at the same time or maybe he's just doing the solo to, Moby ######... ya know, the drum solo, that John Bonham w/ zepplin does :)
  2. nasty bugger

    Veiled Chameleons

    I wanted to get a veiled this weekend, but misting them 5 times a day didn't sound to great at this time in my life. I could set up a misting system for it, but that would mean letting him go till the system was set up and that would seem cruel to me, so I passed on it. The Panthers were...
  3. nasty bugger

    Dart frogs?

    AZDR.com this is a site for the Dendrobate Ranch :) They had alot of really colorful frogs this last weekend at a reptile show I went to. I wanted to get some right there, but need to set up a habitat for them so they can survive. Nice looking stuff though. Not very big eatin' legs...
  4. nasty bugger

    Got a new A. versicolor sling this weekend

    Went to the reptile show in Mesa this weekend and picked up a A. versicolor sling, maybe half an inch wide. He'll be in the vial for a while. He's already got a nice metalic deep blue to it. Now I have one inch and half Aphonopelma paysoni, one half inch A. paysoni, and last but not least...
  5. nasty bugger

    I held a pokie...

    I got a A. versicolor sling at the reptile show in Mesa this weekend. He didn't have it displayed, but someone walked up and asked about it while I was at the booth across the floor. The vendor pulled it out, and the other guy said he didn't really want it now, so I got it. It's small, maybe...
  6. nasty bugger

    Hatching on Desk Shelf

    Where's my cigar? I had an ooth of chinese hatching when I bought it, in a cup of shavings. Some made it, and some didn't. All I've had seem to be chinese, unless I'm just not aware and they're really european mantis' disguised as chinese. Clever buggers. :P
  7. nasty bugger

    Keeping tons o' baby Crickets - HELP

    I've been in captivity before, not bred there though, and have noted that the way you are fed does make a large difference, an amazing difference, in how people act toward each other, and I'd assume the same would go for other creatures. A good diet should reduce fighting and canabalism...
  8. nasty bugger

    How get polen on crickets?

    I'm thinking of putting some honey on something the crickets will hop on, be it a wax paper or what that can be laid in the bottom of an temporary enclosure, maybe heat it a bit to spread it thin or add a couple drops of water and heat it slightly, then add the crickets and let them hop in it...
  9. nasty bugger

    Hi new to mantids

    From what I've gathered in the short period of mantis ranchin' here in the great southwest, when you have a large tank, 10 gallons is small for a texans big haid, but large for a small mantis, then even the large mantis' may have difficulty finding it's food, since they usually lay in wait and...
  10. nasty bugger

    Interesting concept

    Huh, what the heck has this got to do with that... :huh: :mellow: Mantis' will rule the earth, biting off and eating the heads of every human being, and all long before the sun explodes/implodes and cooks the mantis' to a smelly charcoaled mass of, ugh . Sure, some dumb human will make a...
  11. nasty bugger

    PA Show Anyone??

    Not to get off topic, though this is, the mention of frogs and such made me think, there is going to be a show in Mesa, AZ for Frog Day on march 14th. A link: www.Frogday.org I went to a reptile show this weekend in mesa, no mantis' at it, but cricketsdirect.com and some other people, 20...
  12. nasty bugger

    Anyone use silkworms?

    Went to the mesa reptile show today. Saw some silkworm 'colonies' for sale. They seem expensive for a po boy like me :) but I was wondering if they contribute anything that the mantis doesn't normally already get in their diet. Roach colony of dubia for 30 mostly adults for $25, which I...
  13. nasty bugger

    Keeping tons o' baby Crickets - HELP

    I bought a thousand two weekers today at the reptile show, for $11, and now I need to set up to breed them. Not sure if they guy selling them was just being secretive, but I've always heard that they only live about 6-8 weeks, but he said they should live around 12 weeks, and that he's had them...
  14. nasty bugger

    Where's Harry?

    Is there a trunk he could have used to disappear from...any new insects that he could have transmogricated, or whatever it is ;) with... Mine like to find ropy stuff, like a chain, or a hanging cord, or the vinyl hose that I drain my aquarium with, and hang out on it, but then they hang up...
  15. nasty bugger

    Bugs hunt of no Bug II

    Probably owned by asians though. There used to be miles of flower fields in south phoenix when I was a kid, and they were all owned by japanese people that my parents went to school with. My dad used to call a drive through there 'the sweet drive' :) They've sold all the land for houses...
  16. nasty bugger

    My Australia suger gliders (Petaurus breviceps)

    I considered them as pets, but they're a bit expensive for the state of my economy :) , and I have no experience with them so it'd be an expensive chance for me. They are pretty cool looking though
  17. nasty bugger

    Where's Harry?

    Sounds like Harry did a Houdini. Do you have vents for heat or air into the room? I'd look high, toward the lights or where he thinks he'll capture prey. Is the female fat? Did you look in the window frames?
  18. nasty bugger

    How do you do the live chat on this forum?

    I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to computers, and saw some guys in live chat, but don't know how to get in there, so how's it done ? nevermind, i found it
  19. nasty bugger

    Leaving for Vacation OK?

    I didn't see yen saw's post when I wrote this, so here's a kinda double post :) Just occured to me, I just put some of the fly pupae to warm up and open into flies, or whatever stage it is right before they open into actual flies, and I thought about your post and thought I'd mention the...
  20. nasty bugger

    Avicularia metallica

    I don't feel claws on my pason T, but the first tarantula I handled was in the desert and we saw one and the guy that was there picked it up and had it walking on him, and it didn't hurt him so I let it walk on me, and it had what felt like claws everytime he stepped. Felt really odd, but I...
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