New Mantids

[dtuck91]

Just got some new mantids today, really happy!

I received a ghost mantis and a Chinese mantis and they are awesome.

Both of them arrived alive and well!

Ill get pics up when I get a camera lol

 

[stacy]

gratz enjoy them

 

[GhostYeahX]

congrats!! i just sold my canon 18-200lens today, plan to buy a new macro lens

 

[dtuck91]

gratz enjoy them

Hey thanks!

Enjoying them already

congrats!! i just sold my canon 18-200lens today, plan to buy a new macro lens

TY! and nice about the lens, what are you planning to get?

 

[CashPants]

Tuck, I cannot express how much I love your gif signature.

 

[dtuck91]

Tuck, I cannot express how much I love your gif signature.

Haha thanks! It cracks me up whenever I look at it.

 

[dtuck91]

Updated my avatar with a webcam pic of my ghost.

 

[GhostYeahX]

Hey thanks!

Enjoying them already

TY! and nice about the lens, what are you planning to get?

canon 100mm 2.8

will get it on thursday

definitely will upload some photos to share!

 

[dtuck91]

canon 100mm 2.8

will get it on thursday

definitely will upload some photos to share!

Niice! yeah I cant wait to see some of those pics haha.

Here is some horrible webcam pics but they still got closer than I thought.

My ghost

And my Chinese

Does anyone at a glance know what instar those are?

 

[mantid_mike]

Both look to be L2, but that's just a guess..

 

[dtuck91]

Hey thanks for the fast reply, and yeah you're right, they do look L2.

 

[dtuck91]

My ghost is molting! Looks like everything is going smoothly.

Will post pics in a bit.

 

[dtuck91]

Looks like a perfect molt! I think it was from L2 to L3 or L3 to L4.

Ill take pics of him after hes done drying and everything (couldn't really take any pics during the molt except the one below which is horribad)

 

[Reptiliatus]

Good stuff! A bunch of my Phyllocranias are moulting to L4's.

 

[MantidBro]

Just got some new mantids today, really happy!

I received a ghost mantis and a Chinese mantis and they are awesome.

Both of them arrived alive and well!

Ill get pics up when I get a camera lol

Nice! We'll have the same mantids once my Ghost mantids/Phyllocrania paradoxa come in! I currently have 3 Tenodera sinensis and should be getting two of the 'ghosts'.

 

[MantidBro]

Niice! yeah I cant wait to see some of those pics haha.

Here is some horrible webcam pics but they still got closer than I thought.

My ghost

And my Chinese

Does anyone at a glance know what instar those are?

Awesome photos, especially for your webcam, dang!

 

[dtuck91]

Good stuff! A bunch of my Phyllocranias are moulting to L4's.

Nice! post some pics if you can!

Nice! We'll have the same mantids once my Ghost mantids/Phyllocrania paradoxa come in! I currently have 3 Tenodera sinensis and should be getting two of the 'ghosts'.

Badass! Yeah Tenodera sinensis and Phyllocrania paradoxa are by far my favorite species of mantid now.

 

[MantidBro]

Nice! post some pics if you can!

Badass! Yeah Tenodera sinensis and Phyllocrania paradoxa are by far my favorite species of mantid now.

Thanks and I definitely like the Tenodera sinensis so far, I got an ooth and they hatched, they're hyper and interactive, entertaining. L3s, currently. Can't wait to get the Phyllocrania paradoxa, should be getting them next week, L2s or L3s, a male and a female. Plan to breed them if they both live til adulthood.

 

[brancsikia339]

Yeah Tenodera sinensis and Phyllocrania paradoxa are by far my favorite species of mantid now.

Nice mantids! Though the t. sinensis looks like a griffin. Not saying it is, though