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i use roaches instead of crickets mainly because of smell, but also because of noise and care. for fruit flies i've also had problems with smell. i used to use tap water, but then started with distilled or spring water. production has increases considerably, but so has the smell. i've always...

i've had a similar experience with fish. i had several clown loaches, all bought as juvies, all siblings. they were all kept in the same tank their whole lives, but for some reason one just wouldn't grow. all of them grew to be several inches, except one that didn't grow past an inch. it was...

i went and found some ooths in a field by a ditch and kept them in a tank in my room. one just hatched, the other likely will soon. pretty soon i'll let most of them go in my backyard. i have about 75 nymphs at the moment.

i've read on other forums that lateralis seem like a great choice. no glass climbing, no smell, quick breeders, small size, so on. i'm thinking of getting a culture of these started so i've got some questions hopefully you guys could help me with 1. size of the enclosure. i don't know how...

mine can smell pretty nasty too. i noticed it smells worse when i use distilled water instead of tap, but it also increases production a lot. i mix my own media. rick you say u buy pre-mixed media from carolina? there site is a pain to navigate i couldn't find it. i think i'm gonna look...

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mini photo shoot today. so many similar pictures it was hard to choose! lol. the first eight are wahlbergii. i had my first ooth hatch (wild caught), and there's a picture of one of them. i can't belive how many were crammed in that ooth at that size! lastly a new pic of one of my frogs...

thanks! that makes me feel much better.

I just had my first ever hooth hatch. It's an ooth I found in a field. Last night they were crawling all over the cage like crazy it was really neat. But this morning it seems like a lot of them have developed messed up legs. they walk a little wierd, if they walk at all, and when sitting a...

thanks for the tips! how much is well fed? i've read that a couple times a week is usually enough, should i start with a cricket or so a day? i'm also glad to know you don't have to worry about spraying the mantids.

i have fed them a cricket a day for three days. they're my first small mantids, so i'm not sure how much to feed them. i've caught some wild mantids before, but they're about 10 times as big and so they ate a tone more. my walhbergii do the same thing where they seem to suck on my skin...

i received my first mantids the other day: p wahlbergii. i got them from ian and they were shipped overseas and arrived in great condition. i wanted to show a couple pics and well as ask some questions. first the pics: my question is about watering. i read that they like to drink off...

just received 2 p wahlbergii from ian today. shipped overseas to the US, took one week and they look like they're doing great! eating right away and very active. would gladly do business again.

yesterday i set up a tank for my two mantids that should be coming in any day. when i looked in the tank today i found two baby katydids! they're so cute, about 1/4" total. you can see from the picture of one of them on a black towel. anybody know what they eat, i'm going to try to raise...

great video techuser! i love the little brown one that looks like he's playing with the meal worm. however the one eating a pinkie kinda grossed me out. thanks for the vid.

hey braidsta welcome to the forums. i'm pretty new myself. my first mantids should be at my door in a couple days. i ordered a pair of spiny flower mantids. i also will be keeping them in a medium exo-terra (1x1x1.5). i have a verticle divider to split the tank into two halfs so they don't...

if it is a photoshop they did an good job. all of the edges match really well, as well as the brightness it looks like the same flash and lighting. only reason i'd think it's photoshop is i think the hand on the right looks like it's not clamped enough to hold it. i think it's real. so...

thanks. i have an extra 10 gallon so i'll put them in there. i just figured that would be too large for them to find prey at that size. it's already set up with moss and a backround so i'm sure that should help keep some moisture. should i put twigs and stuff in there or leave it kinda bare...

well my girlfriend and i just took a walk by a nearby creek, and i think i found two ooths! so now i just want to make sure i try hatch them right. right now they're in 32oz containers, and i'm going to put a screen lid on top. it's really not that humid in michigan, so i wonder how ofter i...

i'm 22 from michigan. graduating with a degree in architecture in 3 weeks. i have... two tanks of poison dart frogs (dwarf tincs and leucomelas) one tank of african cichlids (mostly saulosi) soon one tank of spiny flower mantis you can see pics in the link in my signature.