Good bye and thank you!

HungryGhost · Sep 4, 2014

I joined this forum about a year ago after catching a gravid female European mantid. I got bit by the mantid bug and ended up keeping several different species and breeding a few. It was a fascinating experience and I want to thank all of the kind and generous people on the forum that helped me learn the ropes.

Today my last mantid died, a female ghost, and it am leaving the mantid hobby for now. A funny thing happened. Last November I went to a reptile expo looking for mantids and I bought a tarantula. I kept tarantulas about 15 years ago and found myself getting back into them. I know own 9 tarantulas and I am focusing my attention on them.

I've always been into creepy crawlies, and I wouldn't be surprised if mantids are in my life again someday.

dmina · Sep 4, 2014

Awww... sorry to see you go...

I would have liked to know you better.. but it is hard keeping up with things when life is so busy..

Best of luck... with those spiders... can't say I am going to miss them... I am trying... but I don't think me and spiders will ever be friends..LOL

Rick · Sep 5, 2014

Hopefully you are not leaving the forum. You don't have to be keeping mantids to stick around and contribute. :cowboy:

Mantis Man13 · Sep 5, 2014

Don't leave the forum.

PlayingMantis · Sep 6, 2014

Sorry to see you go! I hope you re-join the mantis hobby sometime. And thank you for helping me out when I really needed the mantis for my breeding project!