Reptiliatus Collection

[ScienceGirl]

Very cool! Thanks for showing us!

 

[Reptiliatus]

I use that climbing wall stuff also. My mantids are always hanging on it. I love the last picture also. Really nice

It's good stuff right?!

 

[Reptiliatus]

I spy with my little eye.... .

This little man is going to be having some fun with the ladies next week .

He is the first of my males to mature out.

 

[SilentDeviL]

Good we both able to breed this species.

 

[aychen222]

That is a crazy color for a ghost!

 

[Reptiliatus]

That is a crazy color for a ghost!

I keep all my males in a planted enclosure (Ficuss) and a cork/moss background. He's the lightest one. The others are a lot darker.

Most of my females are yellow actually haha.

Here is one of them munching on a wax work. (It was dark in the room so I used flash)

 

[Paradoxica]

The first of my males just molted to adult too! Yay

 

[SilentDeviL]

That is a crazy color for a ghost!

really ? All my male look like that......7 male same color light yellow gray...

 

[Reptiliatus]

really ? All my male look like that......7 male same color light yellow gray...

Ya man we are pretty lucky! Most peoples male ghosts are brown.

 

[Reptiliatus]

So for the last months, a few of us Canadians have been worried we are going to loose our cultures of Popa spurca. I'll leave everyone anonymous but there are a few who had unlucky incidents keeping these guys going, including myself! Many of my males would mysteriously die as presubs, never molting to adult. Soooo bizarre. Anyways! I am happy to share that the only male Popa I have left molted to adult last night! He has a few females to work with so I have to be super careful!

Just thought I would share the excitement . Fingers crossed "eh"!

On another note, first pair of Ghosts were mated a few days ago and I got an ooth from that female .

It won't be long before I'll have some ooths for sale/trade haha...

Here's a shot of right before they connected. (this was in the dark at 3:45am)

 

[Malakyoma]

Congrats on your Popa molting out. I believe my female is fertile at the rate she's pushing out oothecae, so we should be able to keep them going

 

[Reptiliatus]

Another update March 27th: I placed another female into the "male enclosure" (a large planted terrarium full of cohabiting males). I will introduce one well fed female into this enclosure each night and just cycle all of them to increase fertility.

Oldest male already showing interest...

Because Phyllocrania often prefer breeding at night I have installed a "moon glow bulb" (backlight) that turns on every night so I can view if any mating is occurring without disturbing their day/night cycle. It has thus far proven to be very helpful. (The room light is on in this photo to take a better shot)

Success #2: March 27th, 12am, 2nd female is mated (female in above photo).

Thanks for taking a look!

 

[SilentDeviL]

Good Job U'll be busy Very Soon Lots New Challenge I'll Pass on to you .

 

[Reptiliatus]

Haha thanks man .

 

[Reptiliatus]

03/29/2013

Good news!

Still have a few more parings to get through but the boy is already doing a great job after just a few days.

 

[SilentDeviL]

Good Job

 

[Reptiliatus]

Although my females have all been mated I have been pairing the Ghost's a few more times to increase fertility of the ooths they are producing.

Here is a photo of my good friend Albert (Silent devil) and I eating some Chinese food/talking mantids!

 

[Reptiliatus]

Just wanted to share a few more photos with you guys .

One of my recently mated female Popa spurcas. I am very fortunate that my male prooved to be such a stud . Mated with all the ladies successfully and is still here to tell the tale"s".

Archimantis latistyla, Albert and I will be working hard to produce these guys and make them more available to everyone .

 

[Reptiliatus]

April 17th, 2013:

Blepharopsis mendica ooth hatched!

First few nymphs emerge from the ootheca early this afternoon:

I needed to go study for my last two university exams tomorrow and came back to this in the evening , score!

Everybody has already been separated and ooth is still being incubated for a few days incase more nymphs decide to arrive delayed (they tend to hatch in waves). I am however very pleased as the total yield was 50 nymphs!

7 rows of these containers, + 1 nymph.

Here are a few more photos for fun:

A recently hatched D. lobata nymph . What a cutie!

Thanks for taking a look!

 

[SilentDeviL]

Haha Congrats Buddy .. Our new challenge begins lol ...