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what instar were they if they were hatchlings its just something that happens i had a crapload of my chinses that didnt make the first day i have 2 grass mantid ooths ill let you know how it turns out

lol he got his . aparently that mantis was down with the chinese mafia and had some of his homies to get ganster on his umm whatever the rear end of a maggots called. ive seaperated most out of the 10 gallong into like 4-7 per jar.

i just watched a maggot kill a chinese mantis nymph haha let me exsplain i tossed a couple maggots in my chinses cage for dinner and i sprayed it down a little too much cause i didnt want the maggots to drie out and die before the mantids could kill them well this one mantid grabbed ahold of...

its too late you shoulda ordered some fly cultures before the oothcas im in the prossess of learning this the hard way. thankfully chinese will eat each other. soon ill be down to a reasonable number and i can seaperate them. its bought me time. i now cave a culture full of pupae and soon ill...

ant breeders lol

ahhh the chinese seem particulary nomadic i dont think they stick around near the tank once they escape. i wouldnt ither though its like armagheddon in there

free range lol i call those escapees. i prolly got 30 free range chinese nymphs in my house

ok so my main tank is like armagheddon now the chinese are eating each other (and i know i shouldnt be happy about it) but thats fine when it gets down to a couple ill seaperate them it saves my flies for my mendica anyway hope they can live long enuff together till my next order of flies get...

i have a canon 300d digital slr even with the standars 18-55mm that comes with it you will be able to take the kinda pictures you want. a macro lens is a nice thing to have around. for mantids a 50mm macro would work. but if you wanna get top gun get a sigma 105mm exdg macro. you might find a...

acrylic is stronger clearer and more scratch resistant . but it does cost a little more and if you use acrylic cement its strong enuff to make up to a 100 gallon fish aquarium

now another is moulting

i dunno if hes gonna make it. he molted everything cept the tips of his attacking legs and now hes just laying on the floor of the cage upside down moving his legs every so often

i think one of my l1 mendicas is going through his first moult i hopes he maked it looks like hes having a seisure ive been hoding back a special cache of fruit flies just for them they havent been much interested in food and i thought this would happen soon

i think he ment like a jar and a stick . thats the pretty standard setup. just gotta remember to mist it and feed it

yen == the awsome everything good you could read above is true everything came quick and alive he even gave me a ton of info on how to care for my order after payment was placed , in the pased most places bassically ignore you after you pay , but not yen

ever seen how a paint gun works you could use a simmilar theory i need to find a way to keep them from getting stuck in the soup the maggots make reason that dont work for me is i plan on useing glass cant really drill holes in glass ill prolly manufacture a better way to get live flyes into...

i was thinking to get those pesky little buggers out clean and undamaged as possible im going to try a turky baster or a bigger than average eye dropper and suck them up into the dropper and then spit them out into the cage . i was useing tweezers and it was just a pain in the butt, i squished...

they are the hydea or the giant kind im keeping them at room temp our house useually stays right around 75 mine dont seem to bother with the vent holes they just goto the top of the lid i need to order soem wingless anyway cause these giants arent producing fast enuff ill prolly have to make...

and why do the m,aggots in my homemade mix goto the top of the jar they are like on the bottom of the lid

seems like it takes foever for maggots to turn to flies in the media that came in my order but for some reason my home made mix has huge maggots . and a few have turend to flies i just wish they didnt fly around