uh oh! I've done it again - setup 3.0

[Sheldon Johnson]

Well i bought another 18 mantids and they'll be arriving tomorrow, once again though, I've screwed up the number of tanks i have free and am in a little bit of a conundrum!

Ahh well! Anyway i bought another 4 tanks and my setup is looking a little crazy now.

 

[lorriekay56]

What did you buy sheldon?

 

[Sheldon Johnson]

6 paradoxa, 6 dessicata and 6 "ghana boxer mantids"

 

[DMJ]

Sheldon you're a freakin nut! lol you got so many mantis but I have the same problems...just ordered a bulk of mantis from Stephan including Idolomantis! Would like to see a pic of the "ghana boxer mantis" lol

 

[Sheldon Johnson]

gimme a few hours and ill see what i can do! should be here by 11.

 

[chun]

Does the "ghana boxer mantis" happens to be Oxylipus sp? Just out of curiosity really, had some of these 5 years ago.

This picture wastaken by Tom Magg (not me)

 

[yen_saw]

Sheldon, there is still room to grow, upwards :wink: maybe you could try to use shelves?

Good luck with all the mantids!!

 

[Sheldon Johnson]

It might be, but those pictures are pretty small! Got anything bigger? and maybe at some different angles.

I've sexed them all now; 5 females 1 male. Providing he lives long enough and survives all of those women, he's going to be one happy dude! However if he dies, im going to be very sad

 

[Sheldon Johnson]

You think so do you? I can fit one more of those wilco tanks onto the highest ones, but if i do that, i cant open the lid!

 

[Peekaboo]

@_@ Man Sheldon! You're insane! I'm only keeping about 20 mantids and I more than have my hands full. I don't know how you manage to keep up with all that.

 

[Ian]

very purdy species, might look out for some of them in the future. Oh well, maybe I will find the treasure at the AES...

Cheers,

Ian

 

[MantisSouth]

In the first picture, it looks like there is a mantis crawling on the bottom right box on the floor.