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I live in Sweden, there's a reptile shop about 40 min drive from me where they sell lizards, snakes, tarantulas etc! The guy I was talking to on another forum was like "oh no don't get an orchid yet this is my 13th mantid practice with easier species" first but like??? My mantids are living the...

Hi! So I just got home with a rhombodera basalis. The store I went to had an orchid nymph and a sub adult violin, but I decided to go for something a bit more simple. I am however dreaming of owning and breeding orchids, but I've been discouraged by someone on another forum who kept saying the...

Thank you, I wish more people would talk about what they give their mantis feeders, when looking for gutload recipes there's only posts about reptile feeders but not as many for mantids. 

Update: made diy cricket chow for experiment 5, added it to original post

Update! So Elizabeth Bathory didn't want the cricket I offered, she molted pretty recently but looked like she was starving. She did attack the cricket but threw it away after it fought back. I had to fridge it then cut it in half and give it to her with tweezers. I decided to change things up...

I decided to make this thread so I can write out all my experiments with gut loading/feeding my little cricket community. Hopefully this way maybe someone else can learn from my mistakes/success and maybe you guys have suggestions as well? Oats are pretty much my staple for them as it doesn't go...

Turns out the dying cricket wasn't dying, it was getting ready to molt.. I tossed it in a bag with some other trash because I thought it was stone dead but yesterday I had to catch it in the bathroom lol

Crane flies!!!! Every summer when I forget to put up a net they come through the window, and if I'm on my phone or laptop they crash straight into my face and I can't deal

A nice big carcass and some nectar? haha

I get you. I just feel like they deserve to have a decent semi natural life before they get eaten alive, esp considering the conditions they're sometimes kept in at pet stores!

So I'm getting really carried away with my cricket enclosures lol, started out with a small glass box and just upgraded to a big faunarium.  Believe it or not, but there are actually 20-something crickets hiding in there. For easier cleaning i just put the food and water (soaked cotton pads)...

Hi everyone! My name is Matilda and I've been wanting to own a tarantula for ages, unfortunately I'm the only one in the house who thinks they're adorable so I decided on a slightly less "scary" predator. I very recently got a hierodula majuscula and I'm planning on getting an orchid as well...

Great, I thought I might be overly worried but I'm glad you guys share my opinion. Now to the big guy, would a mantis eat pre killed or is there anything I could do to lessen the risk of feeding her with a big cricket? I'm gonna get a new batch of feeders soon but it feels like a waste not using...

Hi everyone! So I'm very new here, last week I got a hierodula majuscula, possibly L3-L4. She's doing great, always eats when fed and looks healthy. When I got her I also got some crickets for the first two weeks at the same place where they only sell reptile/insect related items and I trust...