Flower Mantis

[mantiscraze]

Best buddies!

Piggyback ride

Faster my valient steed! Onward to the promised land.

 

[patrickfraser]

Cute pictures. I have pictures from when I was younger of our guinea pigs riding our desert tortoises.

 

[mantiscraze]

Woke up this morning and found that I have my first adult male.

It's been quite a journey, from ooth to adulthood.

 

[rs4guy]

Gorgeous mantis! This may be my next species! Cheers!

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

beautiful

 

[mantiscraze]

2 new adult males, can someone please confirm the species? Creobroter pictipennis?

Paying hide and seek

Grooming

Female is still a subadult

Hopefully it will molt into an adult soon

 

[patrickfraser]

Go to the source. Ask Rich S,

 

[RevWillie]

They look like my C pictipennis male:

Once my females got to sub-adult, they ate everything in sight and turned into little blimps! Just keep feeding her and she'll get to adult soon.

 

[Andyfrog321]

 

[mantiscraze]

My female finally turned into an adult!

Enjoying a cricket.

 

[RevWillie]

Congrats Tammy! :clap:

 

[mantiscraze]

? Tammy?

Congrats Tammy! :clap:

 

[patrickfraser]

? Tammy?

:lol:

 

[RevWillie]

? Tammy?

Congrats mantiscraze!!! :clap:

Sorry 'bout that, transposed threads and definitely needed more coffee.

 

[mantiscraze]

LOL. Speaking of Tammy, I received 2 wonderful Creos from Tammy. I hope to breed hers with mine.

Congrats mantiscraze!!! :clap:

Sorry 'bout that, transposed threads and definitely needed more coffee.

 

[RevWillie]

Can newly-hatched Creos take hydei, or do they need melanogasters?

 

[mantiscraze]

Okay, so when the ooth I got hatched, I didn't have any fruit flies around, so I went to the local pet shop and got a bunch of pinheads (crickets). They seemed too big, but the hatchlings ate them no problem.

Can newly-hatched Creos take hydei, or do they need melanogasters?

 

[mantiscraze]

When I first introduced the male into the female enclosure, I noticed that the male's eyes turned all bloody red. I forgot to take a picture. And this morning, the eyes are back to normal, like the ones you see in my pictures. Has anyone else noticed this? The eyes become opaque and it's a uniform dark red color, like back when they were L1, L2.

 

[RevWillie]

When I first introduced the male into the female enclosure, I noticed that the male's eyes turned all bloody red. I forgot to take a picture. And this morning, the eyes are back to normal, like the ones you see in my pictures. Has anyone else noticed this? The eyes become opaque and it's a uniform dark red color, like back when they were L1, L2.

With these Creos? Wow, I've never seen that in any of the 5 matings mine have done (2 males, 4 females). The eyes stayed normal greenish.

 

[mantiscraze]

Yeah, these Creos. I'll try to take a picture next time I see it. Like the male got possessed all of a sudden.

With these Creos? Wow, I've never seen that in any of the 5 matings mine have done (2 males, 4 females). The eyes stayed normal greenish.