:lol: Lol, Orin... You know I do kind of miss the in the bathroom nowdays.Now they're not going to get as much care since you don't have to sit and stare at them as much.
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Hey, Shorty.... I got them at the Dollar Tree store. They came 3 to a pack, small, medium, and large, all nested together for a buck. I bought all they had at both our Dollar stores in town... and all they had left at the Dollar Tree where my brother lives when I went to visit him!
You ought to check yours out if you have one... not Dollar General but the Dollar Tree... in the housewares dept. Oh, and they had 2 different styles, one is a little taller and thinner than the other style. Here's a pic of how they came (below). Thank goodness my husband wasn't with me any of the times. And I kind of stashed them in bags in a few different places... so he doesn't realize just how many I really do have, lol! I don't hide anything important from him. But I thought it was better just to keep this to myself. Can husbands have wives committed? :huh: 
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It should be a relief not having to move out of the bathroom for someone when you're in the middle of working on something like feeding.
I live alone in my 2 bedroom apartment but keep the mantis' and fruit flies in the living room and dining room, where it's heated.
I heat my apt soley by grow lights that I grow a vegitable and herb garden to, so that's the heated area of the house.
I just hatched an ootheca about a week and a half ago, and they've already molted. This is my second one hatched, but the first one that the mantis' lived.
I bought oothecas at a whole foods store and didn't know they needed any help to survive and just lodged a ootheca in the crotch of a tomato plant, and the babies just hung under the ootheca and dried up, so I got online and now I've misted them and keep them in jars, a gallon sun tea jar, and half gallon pickle jar, and several quart mason jars.
I have most in the large jars, and another otheca just hatched a couple days ago, so I have some little ones.
I just noticed yesterday that the first batch molted and today I noticed them attacking the just hatched batch. I'd never seen that before, so I gotta move those guys out to save them, or let natural selection take place...
I bought a couple aquariums, a 5gal and 10 gal, at a yard sale the other day, and was going to set them up for mantis' and would like to make it a poly culture, but not sure how that'll work out.
I live alone in my 2 bedroom apartment but keep the mantis' and fruit flies in the living room and dining room, where it's heated.
I heat my apt soley by grow lights that I grow a vegitable and herb garden to, so that's the heated area of the house.
I just hatched an ootheca about a week and a half ago, and they've already molted. This is my second one hatched, but the first one that the mantis' lived.
I bought oothecas at a whole foods store and didn't know they needed any help to survive and just lodged a ootheca in the crotch of a tomato plant, and the babies just hung under the ootheca and dried up, so I got online and now I've misted them and keep them in jars, a gallon sun tea jar, and half gallon pickle jar, and several quart mason jars.
I have most in the large jars, and another otheca just hatched a couple days ago, so I have some little ones.
I just noticed yesterday that the first batch molted and today I noticed them attacking the just hatched batch. I'd never seen that before, so I gotta move those guys out to save them, or let natural selection take place...
I bought a couple aquariums, a 5gal and 10 gal, at a yard sale the other day, and was going to set them up for mantis' and would like to make it a poly culture, but not sure how that'll work out.
Thanks, ming ming.
That's about how it is right now, lol!Wow... looking back at these pics now is kind of funny. I had so much room at first!!! Now I've got almost every available space full, without making it too crowded to work in.
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d17oug18
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lol i cant believe what you have, i can only wish for something of that magnitude, so lil room right now and i want to sell these things, you all have probably seen what i got on that thread a few days ago =) 6 mantises and a very small room lol
No ones asked so i want to lol how the !frick on a stick! do you feed hundreds of mantises?
No ones asked so i want to lol how the !frick on a stick! do you feed hundreds of mantises?
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I'm in the bug room a lot, obviously, Doug!
d17oug18
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i know lol but whats the process, open the zipper a lil bit and funnel them in one by one lol man i dred the day when i have to do that lol, id rather invent a machine to auto feed lolI'm in the bug room a lot, obviously, Doug!
All by hand, Doug, lol! Open containers, pour in ff's. Unzip cubes, pour in ff's or crickets, or release house flies in there. It's a lot of work.
