The Mantis Biotope...

[Wallace Grover]

Chinese can do well in that low of a humidity, but that's like normal room humidity and you may want to raise it a bit for molting purposes. Just seems a little too low to me, although as I said Chinese are a very easy and tolerant species. How tall is the biotope? I assume it sits upright, correct?

BTW, one of my mantids is named Lady Gaga :tt2:

It's around 2 feet tall. I think I miscalculated the humidity too though... my AcuRite probe seems to only measure temperature via the probe, as opposed to humidity...

 

[LauraMG]

It's around 2 feet tall. I think I miscalculated the humidity too though... my AcuRite probe seems to only measure temperature via the probe, as opposed to humidity...

Uh oh! Well, you can get some cheap gauges at WalMart that do temp and humidity

 

[Wallace Grover]

Well, it is an indoor/outdoor thing... so anyways. I put it in the viv and it shot up to 70%+ (it said it can only measure up to 80%) so I guess thats good...

 

[LauraMG]

Well, it is an indoor/outdoor thing... so anyways. I put it in the viv and it shot up to 70%+ (it said it can only measure up to 80%) so I guess thats good...

That's perfect for the majority of species. Well done dude. It's really beautiful and an awesome idea!

 

[Wallace Grover]

Well, I absolutely hate to say, but I'm going to have to sell the viv. It flared up my allergies so bad I started to think I had the flu. The minute I went to a different room I started to feel soo much better.

 

[LauraMG]

Well, I absolutely hate to say, but I'm going to have to sell the viv. It flared up my allergies so bad I started to think I had the flu. The minute I went to a different room I started to feel soo much better.

Oh no! All that work for nothing!

 

[Wallace Grover]

Good news! I think I may have been actually sick. Even if I am allergic, it turns out the office (seperate from the house) has no-return air vents, so I can locate it in there...

 

[sandisk73]

If any of you are interested I'm going to document as I go along building this mantis viv. Here is the start after I siliconed the back so the Great Stuff would adhere:

Now all I have to do is wait a week for the GS to cure and expand, then I will smear silicone over it and apply coco-fiber.

Compliments! Is clear that you are an expert! Very nice work. Can you teach me to make a similar terrarium for my mantids?

Im tuned!

 

[animalexplorer]

Very clever, I like your innovation.

 

[weathmatth]

I agree with animalexplorer