Meet one of my new babies. I am so proud.
P whalbergii
Barb
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P whalbergii
Barb
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My new babies
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No I am very very new at this. I got them from Veggie, one of our members here. I have kept a few mantids before and I keep a very exotic world with many terrariums in it for them to live in. Veggie has kept in touch with me advising me on keeping them in perfect conditions and also making sure they are well fed.
I still have a dozen and are they growing fast! They eat small fruit flies mostly. Tons of them.
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I still have a dozen and are they growing fast! They eat small fruit flies mostly. Tons of them.
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I like spiny flower mantis too, you will see more white and brighter color after each molt. Have a fun and good luck!
I probably seem a little simple and funny to all of you pros around here.
I have enjoyed the better part of life and now I want to enjoy these little creatures. I have a dozen of them. I can see the difference in the sized already. Some eat better than others. They all have the same amount of h2o, location, sunlight, and food. Their growth rate must just be in their makeup. They each live in a 16 oz deli cut with the lid cut out to make just a ring and I have a coffee filter over with the ring to secure it. There is also a crunched coffee filter in the middle of the cup for them to hang out on. They mostly hang on the filter lid. They have shed at least once while I have had them this last 2 weeks.
They will live in a very well planted terrarium later. It sits on end, has a screen in the top 3rd of the front and glass in the middle and botton thirds. They will have a sprinkler system and the tank has a false botton that does not allow any water retention. It also is totally covered with liverwort and other very fine mosses.
When I first got them I was concerned that they could so that's why they stayed in the deli cups. I am not sure when they can go out there. A few wouldn't get through the fine window screen now. I will wait til they all get larger so they can be introduced into the tank all the same time.
Thanks for listening to my gibberish and small talk. Barb
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I have enjoyed the better part of life and now I want to enjoy these little creatures. I have a dozen of them. I can see the difference in the sized already. Some eat better than others. They all have the same amount of h2o, location, sunlight, and food. Their growth rate must just be in their makeup. They each live in a 16 oz deli cut with the lid cut out to make just a ring and I have a coffee filter over with the ring to secure it. There is also a crunched coffee filter in the middle of the cup for them to hang out on. They mostly hang on the filter lid. They have shed at least once while I have had them this last 2 weeks.
They will live in a very well planted terrarium later. It sits on end, has a screen in the top 3rd of the front and glass in the middle and botton thirds. They will have a sprinkler system and the tank has a false botton that does not allow any water retention. It also is totally covered with liverwort and other very fine mosses.
When I first got them I was concerned that they could so that's why they stayed in the deli cups. I am not sure when they can go out there. A few wouldn't get through the fine window screen now. I will wait til they all get larger so they can be introduced into the tank all the same time.
Thanks for listening to my gibberish and small talk. Barb
Yahoo IM=waretrop
Aim=waretrop
[email protected]
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julian camilo
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thanks for telling us about your plans, i like hearing about peoples enclosures and methods like that. i love this species and have kept it a couple of times, previous times ive kept a small group of nymphs together, one time they all got wiped out by that infection where they turn to pink sludge. however, this is the first time ive managed to raise, breed, hatch and now raise again, and im getting to see their whole cycle, most of mine are about one or two moults ahead of yours, in that halfway stage between black and white, with the blotches. i love the way they look. i keep some of them together and they are doing very well, although there has been a fruit fly culture inside their enclosure since they were born, so food is very very abundant. your plans for their enclosure sound great, theyre going to have a very nice home by the sounds of it.
