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Troglodyte
Centruroides
Number of posts : 158
Age : 43
Location : portland Oregon
Registration date : 2011-02-02
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 2:43 am | |
| Ive got mantis envy right now. | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 5:34 am | |
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Scorpeace
Babycurus
Number of posts : 380
Age : 31
Location : Bergen - Norway
Registration date : 2011-07-19
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 7:27 am | |
| Click here  | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 4:52 pm | |
| scorpeace, i have an A. gigas, well, i do somewhere under the thousands of mites... they came with it and they are the good kind so i leave them. makes handling the thing horrible though... I WANT MY MANTIDS!! how can they be so addictive? they always die, but i always want mooooorree!!!!!  | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 5:11 pm | |
| yup orchid matis next i think lol  | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 5:23 pm | |
| tried and failed with them, but i dont think mine was too good to start with (too long being delivered and it was only L2).
get a nice moth orchid to keep it on and try to get a male.
oh sod it ill get one too... | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 5:30 pm | |
| the downside to these is they are absolute pandas to breed, but the chap selling them managed... | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/17/2011, 5:35 pm | |
| whats that the moth ones? | |
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DolbyR
Leiurus
Number of posts : 2097
Age : 42
Location : facebook.com/ScorpionArchives
Registration date : 2011-01-03
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 12:39 am | |
| awww, that thing is cute... maybe I should get of those and put them to live in my wife's orchids, lol - *~BEX~* wrote:
- whats that the moth ones?
Phalaenopsis, IIRC, that's what even you had. It's the most usual kind at the stores anyway. | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 4:56 am | |
| whaat he said, its an orchid which is normally pink and white (like the mantid) and is fairly cheap.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=moth+orchid&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbnid=23_m1-On96QoqM:&imgrefurl=http://www.photoready.co.uk/flora-fauna/phalaenopsis.html&docid=2itgnpSf53nIUM&w=500&h=500&ei=-LF1Tr7_JoOl8QPq2-3UDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=520&vpy=168&dur=2720&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=144&ty=135&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=131&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0 | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 4:57 am | |
| damn that link is big....
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 6:31 am | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 12:45 pm | |
| yay! are you keeping them communally? | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 1:01 pm | |
| No they are separate | |
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Streettrash
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1836
Age : 40
Location : United States
Registration date : 2011-04-14
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 1:08 pm | |
| Those guys are pretty cool. Making me reconsider keeping them. | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 1:49 pm | |
| you should they are awesome just watched mine catching its dinner lol | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 3:52 pm | |
| why they separate? ghosts are pretty much the only ones that are communal??? | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 4:10 pm | |
| Coz I want them separate lol | |
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Scorpeace
Babycurus
Number of posts : 380
Age : 31
Location : Bergen - Norway
Registration date : 2011-07-19
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 4:25 pm | |
| No use in puching your luck Sometimes it goes well (most of the time actually) and sometimes you end up with just one fat mantis  | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/18/2011, 5:54 pm | |
| thats the best thing about ghosts!
ah well, you going to breed them? (do you have a male and female?) | |
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Troglodyte
Centruroides
Number of posts : 158
Age : 43
Location : portland Oregon
Registration date : 2011-02-02
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/19/2011, 1:58 am | |
| - *~BEX~* wrote:
- yup orchid matis next i think lol
H. coronatus is my favorite animal. | |
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_scorpio_
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1827
Age : 30
Location : St leonards... ENGLAND
Registration date : 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/19/2011, 8:16 am | |
|  i cant stop! these things are worse than drugs!!! just bought a ghost ooth... that makes 12 mantids and an ooth of probably 20 or more bought in ONE week... i dont have enough fruit flies... | |
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DolbyR
Leiurus
Number of posts : 2097
Age : 42
Location : facebook.com/ScorpionArchives
Registration date : 2011-01-03
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/19/2011, 9:31 am | |
| Where do you get wingless fruit flies? Any good online sellers that might ship within EU? | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: woo hoo got my mantis :) 9/19/2011, 9:44 am | |
| I got mine from eBay | |
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