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    Wanting to buy mantids from someone in Hungary

    Hello everyone, I'm staying in Hungary with family at the moment, and I would love to pick up some mantids from someone that lives here in Hungary as well. If anyone here has some to offer, please pm me! Giant asian's would be great, but some other large, easy to take care of mantids would be...
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    Question about Cilnia Humeralis

    Hey everyone, couple questions, which i could not find the answers to on google nor the search feature. Cilnia Humeralis: How big do they get? How easy are the to take care of? Diet? Thanks :D
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    Cilnia Humeralis and H Grandis: Looking for them :D

    Hey everyone, I'm looking for some H Grandis and/or Cilnia Humeralis for cheap :) I bought my last two mantids, a Grandis and a Budwing for 5$, and I haven't been able to find such a deal since. If anyone has a good deal on these types please message me :) Appreciate it Adam
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    Birds for sale!

    Hey Adam here, I'm not sure I can post birds on here, but it said classifieds for everything else :) Im selling a few types of birds, nice ones. We have 7 lovebirds(yellow/white and green/red), 4 parakeets (2 green and 2 blue) and 2 cockatiels (big grey ones). So if you want to buy a bird, or...
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    hey there, newbish questions :D

    Hey everyone, i am interested in keeping stag beetles, mainly Lucanus Cervus, or others in the Lucanus family. Few questions... 1. Environment? what they live in, eat, etc 2. Best species for a beginner 3. anyone have them? how hard are they to keep? 4. any general tips for me thanks a lot...
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    Question to help narrow my search

    Hey everyone, been a while since ive posted. But anywho, ive got a question. I want a nice large mantis... what should i get? Basically i just want to know what is the largest mantis available? thanks :)
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    a few questions about a couple mantid types.

    hey everyone, im looking to upgrade my collection, and i was wondering what you would recommend. im keeping a giant asain and a budwing, ive only been in the hobby for about 2 months. I was thinking i would try a P. wahlbergii or perviceps. are those pretty simple to take care of? any other...
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    no molt still??

    hey question... my i have an L4 or L5 budwing mantis, and a giant asain of the same age.... but they havent molted in a while. its been over 3 weeks now, dont they molt every 2 weeks? they dont have wings or anything, so i figure they are still kinda young. i mist daily or every other day, and...
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    hmmm i must have done something wrong :(

    after my ooth hatched, i had about 25 nymphs... and i kept them together fro about 2 days. i then split them into groups of 3, and about 3 died by the :? i then got some small plastic containers and seperated them into those. i gave them a fruitfly every few days, and sprayed the containers...
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    this is wierd... and it sucks :(

    hey guys, i had an ooth hatch a few days ago, and i sperated about half of the nymphs into seperate containers. now 6 out of the 10 i seperated are dead, but the rest that i left together are all alive... idk why, i gave them food and a little water... any ideas?/suggestions? its about 78-ish in...
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    OOTH HATCHED!

    holy my ooth hatched today. its so awesome!! its a ghost ooth, they look awesome. so now from what i hear im supposed to drop in some fruit flies and let em have a go at them right? and after a week (their first molt) seperate em? thanks :D its so cool lookin
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    how do i tell if my babies are alive?

    how do i check if my ooth is still alive? well the babies in the ooth?
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    uhhh im worried

    i looked in my mantis' cage today, and one of his legs is missing :shock: looks like torn right out of the "socket?". im worried about my mantis... why did he do it? and will he be ok?
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    is this a safe treat?

    hey everyone, i was eating a lollipop the other day, adn i put it on the table. my mantis went to it and started licking it. is this ok? or will he have some sort of problems from it? thanks
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    could i feed my mantis a....

    hey, i have a question. i cought an adult orb weever the other day, and i was wondering if i could feed it to my L4 giant asian. would it take it? or would the spider harm it? it is about half the mantis' size. thanks
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    got my ooth... now what?

    Hey everyone, got my ooth today. i put it in a container with paper towel around the sides, sprayed the paper towel, and wrapped the box in a cloth rag. sound right? any advice for taking care of the ooth?
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    Small, cool looking backyard spider from Arizona

    http://media.rfc1437.de/cms-media/2005-11-13/CRW_1121.jpg the spider looks like that, but browm and yellow on the back, and the yellow is triangles running down the back. anyone know what it is? anyone wanna buy it? $5 lol
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    shipping issues (not only mantids)

    hey everyone, i want to ship scorpians and tarantulas to a friend of mine, but the ups site says its prohibited... but i know people ship these things all the time. any advice? or other shipping services. anyway i can ship these? thanks
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    Hmm... kind of worried

    hey everyone, i have a problem. my budwing mantis ate a small cricket two days ago, yesterday, and today. the crickets are much larger than the fruitflies, but i figured he could handle them. now im not so sure. he is about 1 1/2 inches long, and the crickets were about 1/2 inch. but im worried...
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    Pics of my babies :)

    This is a pic of my Giant Asian on my hand My budwing cleaning his leg (on a paper towel) My Budwing on my hand. I like this one because you can see all the nice shades of brown on his arms and back. And another pic of my Budwing. I really like the stripes on the arms and legs. The...
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