Hello to all! Glad to find a mantid forum.

[T. sinensis]

Hey, my name is Chris Bailey. I have been working with and successfully breeding T. sinensis and S. carolina for the last four years. I have had the hardest time finding any breeders of mantids...but I ran across Mantis Place a few months back and just started chatting with Rebbeca yesterday. She was the one to direct me to this forum and I can't thank her enough...finally I have been granted the opportunity to pick some brains and acquire my favorite species.

'Bout time to start hatching my ooths and begin the cycle for this season.

What do you guys own/breed?

Cheers,

Chris

 

[happy1892]

Welcome. I have Stagmomantis carolina. I have Sphodromantis sp. "Blue Flash" and Pnigomantis medioconstricta too but many died and I cannot keep them.

 

[agent A]

welcome from connecticut!!! the stagmo is too cute!! :wub:

 

[hibiscusmile]

Hello there! Long time no hear from you! :tt2:

 

[T. sinensis]

Welcome. I have Stagmomantis carolina. I have Sphodromantis sp. "Blue Flash" and Pnigomantis medioconstricta too but many died and I cannot keep them.

I like the Blue Flash. I'm not familiar with P. medioconstricta...are they just a difficult species to raise?

 

[T. sinensis]

Hello there! Long time no hear from you! :tt2:

Well hey there! Haha, Yeah it has been ages. Haha.

 

[happy1892]

I like the Blue Flash. I'm not familiar with P. medioconstricta...are they just a difficult species to raise?

No, Pnigomantis medioconstricta are not hard to raise. It was just too cold and I fed them crickets. I have to get many cockroaches soon.

 

[T. sinensis]

No, Pnigomantis medioconstricta are not hard to raise. It was just too cold and I fed them crickets. I have to get many cockroaches soon.

Oh, okay. Do use a certain species of roaches or do you vary the diet? I like to feed mine dubia and Madagascar hissers. Though, I only feed them young or fresh moulted hissers due to their thick exoskeleton.

 

[hibiscusmile]

dubies are good!

 

[happy1892]

Oh, okay. Do use a certain species of roaches or do you vary the diet? I like to feed mine dubia and Madagascar hissers. Though, I only feed them young or fresh moulted hissers due to their thick exoskeleton.

I have to get some. I only have a few Lobster Roaches.

 

[sinensispsyched]

I had a t. sinensis ooth that I had hatched but failed to make the grown up mantids mate.

I presently have blue flash mantises, budwing mantises, indian flower mantises, and a ghost mantis.

 

[Bryce08]

Welcome! Lots of good info/people here.

...interesting spots/markings in that 2nd picture.

I currently working with :

idolos, ghosts, chinese, spiny flower, heterochaetas, lineolas, blue flash, b. mendicas, orchids, creo p, popa spurcas, oxy gricilis, and budwings

Love every bit of it...I just moved and am in a smaller space, so everything is a little more cramped right now.

 

[maybon]

Welcome from Australia (cool snake by the way)

 

[T. sinensis]

Welcome! Lots of good info/people here.

...interesting spots/markings in that 2nd picture.

I currently working with :

idolos, ghosts, chinese, spiny flower, heterochaetas, lineolas, blue flash, b. mendicas, orchids, creo p, popa spurcas, oxy gricilis, and budwings

Love every bit of it...I just moved and am in a smaller space, so everything is a little more cramped right now.

Yeah, I have had some awesome examples of S. carolina but she was the best.

I can't wait to start getting the more exotic species.

I'll be moving soon as well but I lucked out and an going to have a larger room.

 

[T. sinensis]

Welcome from Australia (cool snake by the way)

Thank you!

 

[twolfe]

Hello Chris and welcome to the forum:

I am breeding: Phyllocrania paradoxa (Ghost), Hymenopus coronatus (Orchid), Phyllovates chlorophaea (Texas Unicorn), Blepharopsis mendica (Thistle), Oxyopsis gracilis (South American Green), Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii (Spiny Flower), Rhombodera cf. stalli

Other species that I have but am not currently breeding: Idolomantis diabolica (all nymphs), Sinomantis denticulata (1 adult), Polyspilota aeruginosa (Madagascan Marbled: all nymphs), Pnigomantis Medioconstricta (Double Shield: only bought one nymph...now an adult), Rhombodera cf. valida (nymphs)

And my non-insect pets are three Rabbits and two Chinese Box Turtles

Tammy

 

[T. sinensis]

Hello Chris and welcome to the forum:

I am breeding: Phyllocrania paradoxa (Ghost), Hymenopus coronatus (Orchid), Phyllovates chlorophaea (Texas Unicorn), Blepharopsis mendica (Thistle), Oxyopsis gracilis (South American Green), Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii (Spiny Flower), Rhombodera cf. stalli

Other species that I have but am not currently breeding: Idolomantis diabolica (all nymphs), Sinomantis denticulata (1 adult), Polyspilota aeruginosa (Madagascan Marbled: all nymphs), Pnigomantis Medioconstricta (Double Shield: only bought one nymph...now an adult), Rhombodera cf. valida (nymphs)

And my non-insect pets are three Rabbits and two Chinese Box Turtles

Tammy

Nice collection! May I see your Pnigomantis medioconstricta? I don't think I've seen one before. Do you have any plans to work with any of the genus Deroplatys? I love the Dead Leaf.

I have owned MANY reptiles...tegus, monitors, bearded dragons, uromastyx, 12 species of boids, 6 species of colubrids, 2 species of elapids, and varies species of arachnids, insects, millipedes, and centipedes.

 

[Rick]

Welcome.

 

[Psychobunny]

Welcome Chris, very nice snake U have

I raise mostly Spodromantids (blue flash, viridis, lineola, etc.) and dont do a whole

lot of selling except when I finally hatch some ooth's.

Most of my nymphs go to the people I work with, mostly the ladies want to buy them

They think my mantids are sooooooo cute