Interesting video clip, Tony... I really enjoyed it!
I think the cricket is a little too big for him to view as a food item. His strike at the cricket is more an attempt to shoo the cricket away from his immediate territory than try to catch it. I absolutely love the part right after the strike... he shakes a little bit (lingering fear).... but when he turns his head and looks at the cricket I have to laugh out loud every time (yes, I replayed it several times as it's so funny to me, hehe!). He gives it this look like, "You're still here?!!" :lol: Yeah, mantids can be such characters! :lol:
It's a track from the Playstation 2 video game "Metal Gear Solid 3". Thanks for appreciating it! I wanted to spice things up a bit and thought it would be amusing to add music from a video game that takes place in a jungle.
They sound like curly wing flies we get them here but they are not easy to find tend to be out of stock a lot but they are great
Yes, every plant is real. If you want to build one, you can check out a thread about how I built mine here; http://www.dendroboard.com/forum/members-f...24-got-log.html. Please note that I originally had a water feature in it, which I have since removed.
ok im registering now lol
Thanks so much!!! I had a feeling they were living plants because of the piece of wood you have there the one crossing from the from left part to the left right side.., ove it there is a plant that is VERY comon over here and we actually took some of the piece of jungle my dad has to put them in the garden 
Great game
Sorry, I didn't think that registration was required to see that post. I should copy the content to some more accessible place but I haven't gotten around to that yet. I removed the water feature before I bought my orchid mantis, primarily because I was concerned that the mantis might fall into it and drown. As for the crickets, I don't know but I have observed that my woodlice (the trusty and mostly invisible caretakers of my vivarium) tended to drown there.ok im registering now lol
Thanks, it's delightful to hear such kind words!Great game
BTW fantastic enclosure!
Natural looking set ups are always the best i say
They have AWESOME ideas for vivariums in that forum Im not sure what im going to do about the water yet... I was thinking about adding a really thin "river" and just purify the water with one of those purifiers for turtles lol and ad the same time use that same water fr the fake rain... As soon as I start builging up the lil empire Im going to start posting pictures on what how and how much time and money is requiering everything in the process... Although, I might be using fake plants instead of natural ones... I can barely keep a cactus alive for 3 days. a 1 m long x 40-50 cm deep x 60 cm tall vivarium for my lineolas... Thanks so much for the tips and well for the obvious main idea!!!Oh, Ming Ming! You court disaster like a toreador courts a bull! Unless you made a typo, the larger version of your tank would have a volume of 3,000 liters (792gals) and the smaller 2,400L (634 gals. To get a better picture in your mind how large that is, imagine a layer of 10gal (~38L) tanks ten tanks long by ten wide. Now build five more layers on top of that, and it would still be smaller than your smaller enclosure! The crics would have to take a shuttle just to get to the mantids!!Oh its ok
WHATTT?!?!?!? Why would it have to be so big??? I mean Yeah im aware I have 80 lineolas but still Im not sure how many I would have by the time Im done building the tankOh, Ming Ming! You court disaster like a toreador courts a bull! Unless you made a typo, the larger version of your tank would have a volume of 3,000 liters (792gals) and the smaller 2,400L (634 gals. To get a better picture in your mind how large that is, imagine a layer of 10gal (~38L) tanks ten tanks long by ten wide. Now build five more layers on top of that, and it would still be smaller than your smaller enclosure! The crics would have to take a shuttle just to get to the mantids!!
Still, like the matador, you usually seem to emerge triumphant from your "danza general con la muerte," and we're rooting for ya!
I was thinkgin about building the tank and getting everything ready so I could sex them up after that... divide them by sex and specie... and well just giving away the ones I cant have in the tank... 30 usd from the tarantula breeder - 30 usd from the tarantula breeder HAHA! I didn't decide the size of the tank you did: "a 1 m long x 40-50 cm deep x 60 cm tall vivarium for my lineolas." But it does sound like a ot of fun. When it comes to weddings, I found that after the first couple, it got easier.WHATTT?!?!?!? Why would it have to be so big??? I mean Yeah im aware I have 80 lineolas but still Im not sure how many I would have by the time Im done building the tank
Its gonna take a while though, I need to prepeare everything like its my wedding (even though i would NEVER prepare my wedding, I would pay someone else with experience to do it lol)
And I still gotta find ALOT of prices... I need to check how much is gonna be for the good quality plastic flowers, the rocks o the lower bart, I need to check how im going to decorate it... design the landscape, everything.... sounds fun though... and well I got nothing else to do, so why not
lol, yeah but that was going to be the total size of it, like... for all the mantis lol divided by 2, one side for the males and the other for the females..HAHA! I didn't decide the size of the tank you did: "a 1 m long x 40-50 cm deep x 60 cm tall vivarium for my lineolas." But it does sound like a ot of fun. When it comes to weddings, I found that after the first couple, it got easier.
HAHA! I didn't decide the size of the tank you did: "a 1 m long x 40-50 cm deep x 60 cm tall vivarium for my lineolas." But it does sound like a ot of fun. When it comes to weddings, I found that after the first couple, it got easier.
Hold on, fellas!! I don't know how you've been calculating but as far as I know, a 100x40x60 cm tank would contain 240 liters and a 100x50x60 cm tank would contain 450 liters. So while it's big, it's not 2400 liters, which is enormous.lol, yeah but that was going to be the total size of it, like... for all the mantis lol divided by 2, one side for the males and the other for the females.. haha well Im not planning on organizing or fixing everything for my first 5 weddings so...
I'd say that 30 seconds of rain is more than enough for a whole day. I usually run my rain system for 5-7 seconds per day and that's enough for my plants. You don't want to oversaturate the vivarium and turn it into a swamp. Also, you must take ventilation into consideration. I recommend having glass covering about 3/4 of the top area and then some kind of net covering the rest. The ventilation slit should in my experience be along the front glass if you want to have a clear view of the vivarium as much as possible. Also consider digging up a small computer fan somewhere, it makes for a great ventilation device. I took a small old CPU fan I had lying around, spliced the cables, hooked it up to an AC/DC adapter and set it to run at 4.5V. It works perfectly, I run it for about 15 minutes, four times a day.
