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musiclover420
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I remember that guy from all the ridiculous college humor videos he was in.
Now I really want some... That is super cute, it looks so chill
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i dunno. theyre cute, cleam themselves, kill anything smaller than themselves, and love you because you're a gigantic god that gives them food
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21738394 - 05/29/15 08:03 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Gresh said:
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Patlal said: How much do they sell for?
Unless you plan on keeping all 300 of them
you can buy adult chinese mantises for like 5-15 USD. it only cost 30$ for 5 egg cases though, each of which produces 75-300 alienbugs
i wont be selling any. i have 4 more egg cases out doors, and i released 75% of these ones that i hatched inside.
im gonna release a few more, and let the rest battle it out
wanna know what the most balanced diet is for a mantis? other mantises.
You should totally film this mantispocalypse, I'd watch.
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Psychonautica
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Figure out a way to give some of them weapons.
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after about 30 hours hatched, they still seem unwilling to eat eachother. they also don't want to eat the ground beef, or cat food, unless i coax them to by putting it in front of their face. they run away from eachother mostly
hopefully one of them balls up and starts eating his brethren, or else all i'll have is little Moonshoe, who has learned to love his catfood.
Edited by Adolin (05/30/15 02:23 PM)
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21741283 - 05/30/15 02:27 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Fuck all those cat threads. This is by far the cutest thread I've ever seen. Moonshine is going to be the strongest mantis because he eats his cat food. I really hope he wins when the cannibalism starts.
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Go to a pet store and buy the fuckers some Crickets.
or are crickets still too big for the lil dudes?
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Adolin




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even baby crickets are a little too big, unless youre willing to pick out the small ones with tweezers or something
at this stage, pretty much all they eat are Ahpids, teeny-tiny spiders, and fruit flies(the tiny ones)
i might be able to get flightless fruit flies from a local animal shop, but the problem is that they are so small that they can crawl through the mesh coving the terrarium
Moonshoe loves crawling on my arm. i wonder if my fruious typing upsets him? it must be like a damn earthquake to him
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21741419 - 05/30/15 03:03 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I had 3 mantis eggs from last year and none of them hatched 
send me some mantises. PM me and i'll give you my address and some paypal money.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: teamkiller]
#21741430 - 05/30/15 03:04 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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He already said he wasn't selling them.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21741432 - 05/30/15 03:05 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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As long as food is abundant and they have a little space to get out of each others way, they're not going to become cannibals at this stage. Which species are they exactly?
Edited by Jamo (05/30/15 03:06 PM)
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Jamo]
#21741470 - 05/30/15 03:12 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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@ teamkiller
i would if i could. if you lived nearby(pittsburgh) i would be happy to give you basically as many as you want. but i'm not equipped or informed enough to ship live insects
yeah though, apparently the egg cases are a gamble, because females lay them whether they are fertile or not. so if youre unlucky you could get a bunch of un-impregnated egg sacs that wont produce anything
i would be willing to bet that there are local sellers near you though. lots of exotic-animal shops that sell lizards also sell mantises
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Jamo said: As long as food is abundant and they have a little space to get out of each others way, they're not going to become cannibals at this stage. Which species are they exactly?
Tenodera aridifolia
Edited by Adolin (05/30/15 03:27 PM)
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21741515 - 05/30/15 03:22 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Gresh said:
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Jamo said: As long as food is abundant and they have a little space to get out of each others way, they're not going to become cannibals at this stage. Which species are they exactly?
Tenodera aridifolia
actually, that's what they were sold as. i have no idea if that is the actual species or not. so far, they are brown. i dunno if that will be the adult color or not
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: dr_gonz]
#21741653 - 05/30/15 04:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Badass

Totally gonna watch this thread.
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teamkiller
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WHATEVER BRO, i want a ghost mantis ANYWAY.
I'm just kidding, congrats on the healthy babies. yeah pretty sure my lady was infertile just laying eggs for no reason. the previous year i had an eggbound female and that was pretty horrifying to watch her stomach rot.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: teamkiller]
#21743139 - 05/30/15 11:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Moonshoe is doing pretty well. hes noticeably fattened up
theyve been around about 40 hours
there was a SNAFU with the cat food. turns out, gravy is like fucking quicksand for mantises. Moonshoe got stuck several times, and several mantises in the main emclosure basically drowned in it.
gotta be more careful. they are so delicate
cool part though, moonshoe barely even needs to be inside a container, he will sit in the same spot for hours on end. hes been sitting under my bankers light for like 3 hours now. so far i only need to put him in a container when im not around or asleep
Edited by Adolin (05/30/15 11:25 PM)
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21743148 - 05/30/15 11:27 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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i wonder if there is a way to move this thread to my journal 
if any mods can do that, please do
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teamkiller
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: Adolin]
#21743211 - 05/30/15 11:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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when they get bigger, the males will get antsy and start flying around, the females i just leave on plants and they're fine as long as they're not hungry or thirsty.
I dunno about this cat food, every petco and petsmart will have flightless tiny flies you can feed them.
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Re: My mantises hatched! [Re: teamkiller]
#21743249 - 05/30/15 11:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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make this the "my mantis growing up and becoming awesome" thread, gresh
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