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Yeah, I paid him £20 and that was the last I heard from him, he doesn't reply to any emails or pm's, I thought he would be ok as he had plenty good feedback but I suppose you cant ever be sure!

Ok does anyone no where Julian Camilo has gone, I paid for a mantis from him several weeks ago and have never heard from him since! He has had no posts on the site since I paid him and he replies to none of my emails, I dont know if something has maybe happened to him but I would like to know...

I have seven nymphs of these at L5 & L6, 6 of them are female and just the 1 male so I really hope he survives! I found them quite difficult to sex until L5 as the abdominal segments are so cryptic, it helps if they have a good full stomach. The male also changed colour at L5 to become...

How long do they take to hatch? I have one that will be 4 weeks on sunday so i'm stocking up on the fruit flies in advance! Also how often approximately do they lay?

Unfortunately both of my females died today so no ooths at all, I now have only an unmated adult male of this species so I think I will sell him on so someone else can try

Ive taken to using the funnel method and it works really well, its cut my nymph feeding time by about 1/2 an hour! Justin I know what you mean about fruitflies not being so flightless, every culture I buy is now half flightless and half fully flighted. What I do is put a little banana in some...

They are all fed on a mix of butterflies, bluebottles, waxmoths, hover flies and any big fat moths that come to my window at night so I dont think their diet should be a problem. I have tried them on all different surfaces for laying but they will only try when they are upside down and facing...

Has anyone else had trouble breeding Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi? Mine were all raised to adulthood without any problem at all but now they are adult I cant get an ooth! My first female matured in may and was mated about 3 weeks after maturing, all seemed well until she came to lay, as soon as...

The male didnt mate all the time, just every now and then. The rest of the time he was happy just living quietly on his wifes back.

Yeah the first time I saw it I thought she just slipped but then she did it another time, she doesnt seem to worry about where she's gonna land, just wants her dinner! It's quite funny :lol:

I think they have been one of the easiest mantids to pair, my two pairs all mated without the slightest bother and the males stayed on the females for several weeks until they died. The only problem can be getting an adult male and female at the same time

It so hard to pick just 1, I love all the flower mantids cause they are so colourfull and beautiful, very good feeders (one of my Theopropus elegans has a habit of leaping of her perch to catch moths as they fly by and she never misses!), so easy to keep, lively charactors and just plain...

I think Theopropus elegans may be the same as orchids, my little male has matured when he is less than half the size of the females who have 3 moults to go!

Thats quite a good number of each sex, I hope you have as much luck as I have so far.

Yeah! One of my orchids layed her first ooth last night, quite big too and different from what I expected, the last inch seems a bit crappy though as you can see some of the eggs and it is rather squint! How are your little orchids getting on wuwu?

Thanks, i'll give that a try and let you know what happens :)

I use fish food and fruit for my feeder crickets and roaches. Neither have ever caused any problems and the fish food is really nutritious so it makes the crickets really lively

The female is still trying to lay but just cant get her abdomen to stay up, I tried keeping her off food to let her lose some weight but she is just so full of eggs. Thats 5 days she has been trying for, i've been keeping the humidity up to try to help her, is there anything else I can do to...

Yeah but her abdomen hangs out to the side when she is upsidedown so the tip doesn't make contact with the branch she wants to lay on.

Im quite worried about my oldest girl now, I noticed her trying to lay last night but her abdomen is so huge that when she hangs on the branch to lay her abdomen falls to the side and is then too heavy to lift up without her crawling back on top of the branch. she only tries laying in a upside...