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my 1/2 g betta bowl. it contains 1 chinese mantis and some real plants and some sticks heres some pictures and a closeup (i dunno if you can tell from the pic but in real life hes a pretty purple color) and my 1/4 gallon betta bowl contains my B.mendica anfrican deser mantis and some...

do wing buds mean sub adult???

theres like these little betta tanks i found at walmart made of plastic or acrylic or something but they are retty cool for only 3 dollars i moved my big mendica into one today to test it hes just over an inch long. maybe an inch and a half . used to be i had to open his thing to take pics of...

heres my older mendica heres a sub macro its not a true macro but its the closest i can come without a 500 dollar lens and my favorite chinese (wish i coulda got a pic of his abdomen the design on there reminds me alot of a budwing)

ok anyone whos ordered ff from wormman.com knows what kinda vials im talking about . Does any company sell them just the vials/caps/screens. ive been useing one for a small chinese nymph and its perrrrfect id love to put some mendica nymphs in some. they are so perfectly clear and not too big...

ok so me and my wife are kicking around the idea of buying a house. yeah thats great and all but it means no more net. so i was thinking i should put together a phone number list of the breeders i know , but i only need the US numbers cause it would cost me more to call england than the bugs are...

my grass nymphs hatched they are tiny i dunno how they could eat anything cept maybe aphids . oh well in a couple days ill try some melanogastor. i think the hydei would prolly squish them sumo style

ok the shots not the best but it was in bad light and i didnt have a macro and this is a L2 mendica not a very big beasty

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...

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 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 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...

the maggots that develope are flying on a high note one of my baby mantids got him a fruit fly today

they seem kinda not interested in the fruit flies i also added a lacewing type thing of equal size i have 40 billion moths outside and right inside my front door but i assume they are too big

i need to find a good place like the UK live foods in the US im sorry but overseas shipping prices are insain

anyone got any flower mantid pics ive been looking at getting some . ill prolly order from ian when i get paid reguardless of the insain shipping prices (i wont say his shipping cause its the only shippig hes got access to till fedex answers him i really really like spiney flower mantids and...

i accidentally got the big fruit flies hydea or whatever will they be ok for mantid hatchlings to eat??

heres a design for a cage i came up with im gonna build a 2 x 2 x 4 for nymphs and small mantids and a 4 x 4 x 6 for larger ones (might go 4 x 4 x 8 ) but the inner dividers are removable so if i lose a mantid or 2 then it becomes a conveniant cricket storage place also theres an empty area...

ima give it liek 2 more weeks then ima cut open this oothca to see if its just goo inside or not it seems to be getting darker but that might be mold or just the goo soaking the sides i dont see how babys wuld make it darker

its the start of a tribal mantid tattoo the picture sucks and the entire thing needs reworked in photoshopped so its perfectly identical on both sides but heres the main draft i still need to add legs and antenna here goes