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Or a simple solution in my opinion is to screw up bits of tissue or newspaper and throw them in the bottom, or tear/cut strips of netting and hang them over the side of the hatchery... Statistically if you have 8 strips on the walls and 2 rolled up bits of tissue on the bottom and 100 hatch...

Ok, all in all, nice guy, good communication, great packing and delivery- however, HE SENT THE WRONG MANTIDS! I ordered 10 H.grandis and got 10 of something else... they looked like H.grandis to start but something told me they weren't when I saw wing buds after they reached 1.5 inches. :cry...

Yeah but would you really want your pet insect to be eaten?! I think I speak for many in here when I say that even if I was paid for my collection, I wouldn't sell it if I knew they'd just be torturing them or eating thrm for the sake of entertainment on a TV show! The company or person who...

correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't you be happy?! - If you do your best to make sure that male makes it to maturity- you could mate it 9 times and have the maximum number of ooths :D (lucky male :wink: )

don't knock stupid people... they make the rest of us look smarter :D

http://www.microcosmos.org.uk/phasmid_foodplants.htm =has a list of plants and phasmids that eat them... However, the less common the plant, often the less common the phasmid! What i did yesterday actually was to take a walk in a 20m radius or so from my house and just pick samples of plants...

I would imagine that most are safe as Rick says... some perhaps moreso than others- carotene (from carrots) - is orange, natural and should be safe... coccineal from 'effectively' ladybirds (ladybugs) is red and also should be... Potentially, if you liquidise grass, you could get the chrophyll...

I use the water that is collected from a dehumidifier and from the tumble dryer - apparently it's distilled (as it's collected from the air)...

want one?! in a few weeks I'll be breeding these guys... then ooths... feel free to reserve some :D

Not sure about mantids, but my experience with drosophila is no. Flies in the lab are specifically bred with their brothers and sisters to maintain a genetic *purity* and I know from experience that mating a brother with his sister and then letting all their offspring mate and mate and mate with...

best i could get with my digital camera - if u wanna see it on webcam, just ask :D and yeah, you're right, it is a male, shoulda known (miscounted segments :oops: ) - so any idea on species

ok, I got 10 mantids ASSUMED to be grandis... but they're not... they're kinda half the size... Here's a pic, the lil lady is about 2.5 inches long, the colour you see there, no distinguishing marks on her abdomen- only a very light brown streak (kinda) down the side - which you can justs ee in...

Never kept gongys so i have no experience on this so someone that does, maybe you can help... What are the exact symptoms of feeding crix to gongys? - does it affect the lower instars or just the ooth producing female? If just the female, I've been thinking (with reference to what julian said)...

Key to healthy living as with any animal (let alone, insect) is of course variety! Use a mixture of flies, mealworms, buffalo worms, crix, locusts, waxworms (and the moths) earthworms (small), silkworms...and anything you can find... But yeah, curious here- does anyone have a site for...

the only dumb thing i can think of is that chances are, in the tank, vivarium, pot... whatever... chances are there is no wind! Similarly in a rainforest- the air is *stationary*... so although i agree with the theory completely, this seems to be an inconsistancy. my theory... miniature ipods...

yeah, forget what site it's from, i think lifefoodsdirect... the flightless are the melanogaster- i recognise them from the lab, think i should have said, if you can find the wingless on that site (often out of stock) they're a little smaller than melanogaster. All in all both good sites but...

livefoodsdirect have them but they're not obvious on the site- type flies in the search thingy... also livefoods.co.uk have them. I have a culture from a month ago still going - living off just mashed potato and cornmeal! :D still fresh, still producing :)

...and in terms of eating it virtually all toxins in the sting of a scorpion and the bite of a spider are enzymes and protein containing. If it ate those toxins, those proteins should just get broken down in its gut like muscle or anything else would. Only proteins i know of that would cause...

how about letting the mantids go free range for a while?! :)

wow, quite a collection... kinda surprised you don't have a T.blondi in amongst all that lot but hey, you have a baboon so it comes pretty close :)