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My girl is also a very accurate striker! :) I was so glad to see her vision was not impaired by this! Good to hear it that it sounds like nothing serious comes of this.

Oh I know they don't have real pupils, that's just what it reminded me of lol. ;) I was just curious because I've never seen it before. That's interesting about rubbing the walls though...makes me sad because I took her out regularly...even made her free range in our place for a while so maybe...

I've kept quite a few of these fellas and I've never seen anything like this. It almost looks like her pupils are super dialated. They never go completley black anymore either. Was hoping someone had some insight? Other than that, she seems ok, she's getting a little old but she produced quite a...

Thanks for the info Domanating! :)

Cool! I'm glad to hear they lay a few. I wasn't able to find much googling that! :) must have been something wrong with her last year then. :( thanks!

I was able to mate two of my Chinese with success yesterday for the first time. :) She's my big girl! I have a few more that I'm trying but few of the ladies I have had some bad molts to adulthood. They're on the smaller side with messed up wings. The males I've placed with then don't seem...

This post made me chuckle! I kind of had that somewhat when I got my very first fruit fly culture. There were sooo many I couldn't believe it and I got a little hebe jebe myself! ;) The mites definitely freak me out a little though!

I'm so facinated with these guys...are they hard to keep? What do they feed on and what kind of enclosures work best? I'm going to do more research googling but wanted to see if anyone else here keeps them and see how they are as pets. :) I saw someone on here had a pink one and....WOW! I...

She's going on about 5 weeks as an adult now and looking a wee bit plump. Think she's getting ready to lay? How many do they lay in a lifetime? I read up to 15 is that right?

Thank you all for the great suggestions! :)

Does anyone know where to find these types of containers to make enclosures with? Would love to see more examples of whatever these are. I really like the look of them and I'm always looking for something to make enclosures out of myself. :)

Thanks all! Much appreciated! :D Rick-Would those 12" cubes be sufficient to keep the Chinese to adulthood you think? I really like those a lot and they look great for molting!

My babies are getting big...and the 32 oz. custom deli cups I made aren't going to cut it for much longer! I want something on the cheaper side that will look nice in the home and not too bulky in size, and I'll need about 12 of them. So here's my idea...the dimensions say 2.6" width x 6.5"...

Waiting patiently for Margaret to molt!!

Awesome advice! Thank you so much! :)

This is the first bad molt I think I might finally be able to salvage. This little guy has his 2 back legs still stuck. My question is, should I try to remove the old skin? Should I leave it alone? Does it look likely he could be back to normal after next molt? I swear, all other bad molts I've...

I had 5 ooths...2 inside to hatch and 3 outside. My indoor ones hatched May 19th (Some are already L3's now!) and I was worried the 3 outside wouldn't hatch (too cold, too wet). But to my surprise 2 out of the 3 have hatched within the past 2 days! I've noticed that every ooth I've had hatch...

I'm having the exact same issue right now and this just helped a lot! Thanks! :)

I recently got my L3 brunner at mantispets.com. She didn't make it very long, not sure why but I just bought another one to try again. They still have more in stock looks like. They are a little pricey there but the shipping is cheaper than other sites I've seen. They're a very cool species! :)

Honestly, it was one of those things that I thought woud be fun to catch the food for her myself now that it's warmer out. But you're right....I guess there will always be a risk with that. I used to do that a lot for my Chinese and never had a problem which is why I didn't think anything of it...