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I keep my beardie in a glass Aquarium, 30 gallon, hes about 4-5 years old nowi notice he moves a lot more when i have the heat lamp on him *its on my 10 gallon for a mantid at the moment. I would suggest handling him a lot, i stopped picking mine up, and now hes a vicious killer! ;-)

Come on guys, stop picking on Dino, its not his fault he is close minded and stubborn He will grow out of that, we all did, he just need realize that the world is not out to get him! as for the Nutrients for good health, it is said you are what you eat, and since crickets are mantid food, isnt...

I have a natural Tarrium setup in a 10 gallion tank, Do i need say Moss over the dirt, or grass even??

any tricks to this that anyone knows of??

Hmmm Ok My name is Joshua, i am 32 and off and on have keep mantids for some 22 years now, mostly off than on, though i do have 3 l2 chinese mantids I've lived in michigan all my life, but come oct i am moving to sunny san diego, where i will be an EMT/Firefighter, and work on getting my wild...

what i really wanna know is, can these spiders climb glass? i am kinda phobic of spiders, but would love to have one of these if there was no threat of it climbing on me This is why i was looking for something who has actually experence keeping said Spider and i am not picky on what kinda...

I take it noone here has ever keeped a trap door spider then *sighs*

Why not try your local Deli??

I placed an order with this guy for fruitfly culture and come pin heads, like mid last week, i have since sent him 2 Emails and NO RESPONCE This guy really needs to work on his communication skills!

I agree i am the only one i know that has any interest in nature of al lmy friends Oh well, thier lose

let me try this again, is there anyone who knows anything from personal experence about keeping this spider??

I would love to open a pet shop, exotics all the way!

Few years back i tried this with a Toad and im guessing an L3-4 Chinese, sadly the toad won that encounter, ill have to try the Anole some time though, to bad you didnt get any pics i would have loved to see them, or even a video ;-) *shrugs* perhaps i have stronger stomach than ppl like Dino ;-)

God i hope 32 isnt to old for this hobby since i just got back in to it

Those Pics of the tank are from when i first set it up, since then tie cricket has been fed to my bearded dragon, and the Fly trap has since died, They hathced out fine, so i guess my placement was no big deal, biggest problem i have now is finding fruitflies locally that are not dead, and the...

Ok here it goes Ok this one here i thought was cricket eggs From this Herb eating little fello funny how he wouldnt seem to mess with this here are some pics of my new born mantids Sorry that is all i have, the new borns are in a 10 gallon tank, though my other...

i was wondering hwo much where those duck eggs, my Mother would to have a pet duck *shrugs* guess its not so strange after all ;-)

per the original question, i honestly dont feel that inbreeding in mantids, could ever pose a real problem, becuase the sheer number of babies per, also the fact that any negitive mutation from inbreeding will never see a chacke to pass it along as it will have long since died due to nature...

I mist but mainly because i have 3 inchs of dirt with several planets planeted in the mantis enclosure

I actually put about 3 inches of Top soil, i have several different kinda planets including Herbs, and i also broke down *becuase of sale* and bought 10gallon tank as well, i mean 3 bucks who can beat that ya know, not sure what i wanna do with that yet though