Loops117
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Hello all.
Ryan here, also known as NanoRyan89, and acampinfool on other community forums depending on the hobby.
To start off, i'm 26, from michigan and have been a bug enthusiast my whole entire life. I sell computers and inventory manage as a career, and looking to get (back) into this hobby.
I've always gone a little overboard with any and all of my endeavors. I thrive on symbiotic relationships and self ecosystems for both land and water creatures. I spent a lot of my life caring for Reptiles, amphibians, insects, Tropical aquariums, terrariums, reef tanks, gardens and now Vivariums. Since i have a love for all living creatures and eco-systems (Not to mention the mantis is my absolute favorite bug), i plan on building a vivarium (or a few considering i couldnt just have ONE fish tank, or ONE reptile tank..lol) completed with a full clean up crew and mantids.
What brought me to this forum is the endless search for mantids. I've always known you could buy the common green mantid online, but i never knew about the rest of the species readily available for the trade up until a couple months ago. Since then, my mind has been spinning in circles around this insect project. I hope to build my first Vivarium for a colony of Ghost mantids, and have already started the project. (You'll see a project page for this if the forums have a section for it). I'm new to mantids and plan on asking about a million questions about them, so i hope you're all prepared.
Anyway, thank you for reading this.
Ryan
Ryan here, also known as NanoRyan89, and acampinfool on other community forums depending on the hobby.
To start off, i'm 26, from michigan and have been a bug enthusiast my whole entire life. I sell computers and inventory manage as a career, and looking to get (back) into this hobby.
I've always gone a little overboard with any and all of my endeavors. I thrive on symbiotic relationships and self ecosystems for both land and water creatures. I spent a lot of my life caring for Reptiles, amphibians, insects, Tropical aquariums, terrariums, reef tanks, gardens and now Vivariums. Since i have a love for all living creatures and eco-systems (Not to mention the mantis is my absolute favorite bug), i plan on building a vivarium (or a few considering i couldnt just have ONE fish tank, or ONE reptile tank..lol) completed with a full clean up crew and mantids.
What brought me to this forum is the endless search for mantids. I've always known you could buy the common green mantid online, but i never knew about the rest of the species readily available for the trade up until a couple months ago. Since then, my mind has been spinning in circles around this insect project. I hope to build my first Vivarium for a colony of Ghost mantids, and have already started the project. (You'll see a project page for this if the forums have a section for it). I'm new to mantids and plan on asking about a million questions about them, so i hope you're all prepared.
Anyway, thank you for reading this.
Ryan
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