not looking good

[OGIGA]

Haha! Too much water!

 

[darkspeed]

Damn that is a great shot Scott!!

 

[macro junkie]

Damn that is a great shot Scott!!

Thanks

 

[macro junkie]

left is an adult male

right is an adult female

 

[idolomantis]

red eye and pink eye :lol:

 

[OGIGA]

red eye and pink eye :lol:

Brown eyes and purple eyes?

 

[idolomantis]

i see red n pink... maybe i,m colorblind

ok last one indeed purple... but the male has red eyes to me...

 

[macro junkie]

Brown eyes and purple eyes?

there more like deep orange but definitely not brown.i think the tips of the eyes are brown tho

 

[idolomantis]

i make a new color :broredrange :lol: :lol:

 

[idolomantis]

insteed of making a new one, i continue this one.

i,ve managed to sex this L3 as a female:

now i have them on a heath mat of 26 degrees celciuc(is that ok or do i need to warm that up?)

i,m powerfeeding her with one curly wing and 2 ff each 10 hours.

i keep the substrate 70% and mist every 24 hours.

at what nymph stadia can you people see gender?

nom nom nom

 

[Giosan]

"one curly wing and 2 ff each 10 hours."

I don't think that's powerfeeding but just... feeding?

 

[idolomantis]

"one curly wing and 2 ff each 10 hours."I don't think that's powerfeeding but just... feeding?

but with 4 MM abdomen that,s the maximum they can take.

 

[The_Asa]

To me that's powerfeeding. I only feed them every other day, not that much either.

 

[harryallard]

a bit off topic but can you feed them curly wings all their life?

and can you keep female orchids together?

or male orchids together?



i have many questions

 

[The_Asa]

You can't keep orchids together and they (females at least) will outgrow the curly wings.

 

[idolomantis]

a bit off topic but can you feed them curly wings all their life?and can you keep female orchids together?

or male orchids together?



i have many questions

the only mantids you can keep together are cryptic spp becouse they are wusses.

 

[mrblue]

the only mantids you can keep together are cryptic spp becouse they are wusses.

so idolomantis is a wuss?

 

[idolomantis]

so idolomantis is a wuss?

*slam* i,m not... if you mean the spieces.. well i don,t know i heard they only eat flies while they are 12 cm or so..

atleast the ghosts are.

 

[The_Asa]

Yeah, Ghosts are wusses

 

[nympho]

Yeah, Ghosts are wusses

wusses? too right. they are giving the mantis a terrible reputation

must get some orchids or some other nasty mantis that will actually eat something more ambitious than 1 teeny weeny ff a day !! i miss my giant asian mantids (or whatever they were called). they had balls !! :lol: