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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MantidBro" data-source="post: 268151" data-attributes="member: 6731">for sure! i love animals theyre my life! thanks for the sympathy. its sad to watch an animal that ive had for that long slowly start getting worse and worse. im a big fan of reptiles as well. id kept a female garter snake for a year. i released her this year! found her when she was about 6", she was exactly a foot long when i let her go.the budwing nymphs i have are also from my females. one died recently, and the other just turned 10 months old which is the average lifespan of this species.oh wow you have that many walking sticks? awesome! i only ever kept one. my moms friends collected it for me, thinking it was a mantid, lol. funny. it was an adult female manomera blatchleyi. she laid quite a few eggs herself! i took them out of her container and put them in a condiment cup... and one day i dropped it, crushed it, the eggs went everywhere, they were impossible to find! i tried for a while too. theyre just so small, and roll-y. that was quite annoying. and of course all hope was truly lost once i had to vacuum. how long do they take to hatch?</blockquote>