I am always warning from buying WC ooths of this species. Besides of conservation issues, you don't know the origin in the meanwhile, and in most cases you get hatched ooths. It's like the good old gold-rush: someone gets a good one and subsequently, everyone wants one, but most don't get good ones. In the end, you have spent more bucks on dead ooths than you would have spent if you bought some captive bred nymphs, besides of the fact that you get the necessary information then. One may ask why people still engage in trading ooths from Africa, when considering that the only one who makes his deal, laughing at you, is the African dealer. The problem may be that people are less interested in just adding this species to their culture than making money of them. So, if you ask me, this is nature exploitation and all you guys don't deserve it better! Don't take me wrong, I am also selling this species, making some bucks, which helps me sustain my hobby - but it is the result of my own work, of my own 5-year long efforts. What all these traders do is just trying to make money from WC animals, and this is not what the hobby should be. Particularly those who fail due to a lack of experience should better "consume" captive bred specimens than WC ones. But, as I said, getting this species to one's collection isn't the only aspect, otherwise this market with African dealers/frauders would not persist. The sense of importing WC aninals is to get them into culture - once there are in culture it isn't necessary to import more! Some people should think about this. What happened to all those successful Idolomantis hatches? What happened to Heterochaeta? Some species should be restricted to people who know what they're doing until they were "cracked" and are availeble to the public and should be not exploited from nature by persons who have one paradoxa and one wahlbergii at home. I know that this lines will not be liked by the guys I mean, but it's equal to me if someone likes it or not. It had to be said. Sometimes I am really disgusted by the trend that the hobby is following today. And all this in times when some radical politicians think of prohibiting any exotic animal at home. I think it's already reality in the US and hanging as a Damocles sword in Europe already.
