Being a Mantis Breeder...
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Yeah, just a joke - it was inspired by one of the scenes from Team America... "Get out of the street you f**** bum!" That's my favorite line, hehehe.
In fact I find it a very interesting and satysfying hobby - but it developed a tendency to go only for the exotic species... I just cannot have any pleasure from having something that everyone has - so no Hierodula or Sphodromantis for me, as in Monty Python: I'm off to play the grand piano :lol:
As for profits - did I mention that now I can go to the cinema and watch Alien vs Predator 2 and not beat up te box office guy for selling me ticket for this rubbish?
In fact I find it a very interesting and satysfying hobby - but it developed a tendency to go only for the exotic species... I just cannot have any pleasure from having something that everyone has - so no Hierodula or Sphodromantis for me, as in Monty Python: I'm off to play the grand piano :lol:
As for profits - did I mention that now I can go to the cinema and watch Alien vs Predator 2 and not beat up te box office guy for selling me ticket for this rubbish?
Hi
Yes, that is a new point of that discussion:
A breeder is breeding 8 pairs of this and 12 pairs of that,
but a good breeder is breeding 12 pairs D. trigonodera, 25 pairs of G. gongylodes, 14 pairs of Th. servillei, 35 pairs of G. amoena, 9 pais of Tarachodes and stuff like this (Yes, of course your mantids, too, Juergen
).
Like Christian said before: Stop breeding mantids everyone has got if you want to be a breeder. I - for myself- only try to breed mantids nobody else is breeding. And I'm doing fine
I am not even triing to dissect/groom/prepare a dead D. desiccata or P. paradoxa. Why should I? I think there is no need to do it. Enough people did it before. It is an easy species so there is no need for me to breed them or prepare them.. Luckily other people like to bread them IN A SPECIAL SPAN OF TIME (Like Christina pointed out above) so some easy speacies like D. desiccata or P. paradoxa won't never vanish. And for me there is no need to breed them.
Of course there is no need to breed Toxodera either, but it is another level of quality to breed something everybody is waiting for. There are some species only 5 people breeding them worldwide (Do not forget: Some of them are in stock for 20 years now but every year 200 people are failing with special species and only 5 secure a second generation, so my first aim is to secure these species for all -more or less explained- breeders )
To point it out again: I failed with Idolomantis!
gest regards,
tier
Yes, that is a new point of that discussion:
A breeder is breeding 8 pairs of this and 12 pairs of that,
but a good breeder is breeding 12 pairs D. trigonodera, 25 pairs of G. gongylodes, 14 pairs of Th. servillei, 35 pairs of G. amoena, 9 pais of Tarachodes and stuff like this (Yes, of course your mantids, too, Juergen
).Like Christian said before: Stop breeding mantids everyone has got if you want to be a breeder. I - for myself- only try to breed mantids nobody else is breeding. And I'm doing fine
I am not even triing to dissect/groom/prepare a dead D. desiccata or P. paradoxa. Why should I? I think there is no need to do it. Enough people did it before. It is an easy species so there is no need for me to breed them or prepare them.. Luckily other people like to bread them IN A SPECIAL SPAN OF TIME (Like Christina pointed out above) so some easy speacies like D. desiccata or P. paradoxa won't never vanish. And for me there is no need to breed them.
Of course there is no need to breed Toxodera either, but it is another level of quality to breed something everybody is waiting for. There are some species only 5 people breeding them worldwide (Do not forget: Some of them are in stock for 20 years now but every year 200 people are failing with special species and only 5 secure a second generation, so my first aim is to secure these species for all -more or less explained- breeders )
To point it out again: I failed with Idolomantis!
gest regards,
tier
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blitzmantis
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Yeah, now a guy with Ceratomantis would be swarmed with clients.
The same goes for Gongylus - people dropped it, or were not smart enough to buy enough and now only a couple of breeders have them and the demand is great - not a great thing for us clients, hehehe.
The same goes for Gongylus - people dropped it, or were not smart enough to buy enough and now only a couple of breeders have them and the demand is great - not a great thing for us clients, hehehe.
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Mantida
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The joke was about what you did of my name! However, I really have no clue what you wanted to say with this:
Did you mean that not everybody wants to wait until "his" species has become popular again? :huh:
blitzmantis
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If you wanna be
So what you guys are saying is that there will be times in a year where a certain species is the most wanted mantis around but once everyone has got one they become at the bottom of the list of wanted mantids. But when that generation of mantids die then they become wanted again.
So what you guys are saying is that there will be times in a year where a certain species is the most wanted mantis around but once everyone has got one they become at the bottom of the list of wanted mantids. But when that generation of mantids die then they become wanted again.
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Yup, that's how things go - but there are species which are always wanted - Goglylus, Hymenopus, Idolomantis, Phyllocrania and so on - it's good to have one or two of those and have a constant supply of cash, not that it's all about it - but if you are runnig a bugatorium with multiple heating gizmos and you have to buy horseloads of fly pupae, then you better have money for that.
Oh my god! Christian, I am so sorry! Now I realised what I wrote! Please excuse me!
regards,
Stefan
Yes, for example if somebody sees a picture of Deroplatys desiccata for the first time, he will love it and he won't care if there are enough other breeders of this species. He will buy some and so there will always be some. For sure this is just working with easy species.
regards,
Stefan
