MrGhostMantis
Arachnoprince
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Contemplated doing this for a while to show the species I have kept. Not too wide of a variety, but it does include some rarities.
First, just a list of species to explain what I have!
I have several P. paradoxa adult pairs, who are the “bane of my existence” as I once heard @mantisfan101 say about a male ghost. I think this is really the first time I’ve had issues with ghosts wanting to breed.
Recently, I had a smaller hatch of around 30 M. religiosa, a species common but I somehow haven’t kept. Super active little dudes, always ready to take on a challenge prey-wise. All just starting to molt to L2.
P. affinis have to be one of my favorite species. Literally bottomless pits. I had to force one to stop eating because I was worried it would burst the other day! Insane feeding responses, even in males.
Popa spurca really come in a wide variety of color, this is a beautiful female that ate my male
Another species I failed to breed, D. truncata. Amazing species just very finicky. She fatally wounded the male I had. I haven’t had the best of luck with breeding if you couldn’t tell haha.
P. perpulchra...another failed breeding attempt so far. Sexed one as male, molted and now is 100% female. This is them a few days after I got them.
H. orientalis, one of my favorite species. I only have a male from a friend, on the lookout for a female. Luckily these things are VERY long lived. Even the males!
I’m sure most seeing this know about my Idolomantis project, just a little picture from a photo shoot a few months ago.
E. pennata is defiantly one of my rarest species. Nearly unheard of in the US, just my luck that I ended up with 2 females arg! (Don’t mind my messy desk in the background ahah I’ve been rather busy lately, not much time to clean)
Finally, H. membranacea. The first mantis I got a definite fertile ooth from. I got very lucky to the point of my old male making it long enough to mate with a young female who was way behind on molts.
That’s all my species as of now, I will likely update this with significant molts of certain species or the acquisition of new species (I'm getting more soon), breeding, or ooth hatches.
First, just a list of species to explain what I have!
I have several P. paradoxa adult pairs, who are the “bane of my existence” as I once heard @mantisfan101 say about a male ghost. I think this is really the first time I’ve had issues with ghosts wanting to breed.
Recently, I had a smaller hatch of around 30 M. religiosa, a species common but I somehow haven’t kept. Super active little dudes, always ready to take on a challenge prey-wise. All just starting to molt to L2.
P. affinis have to be one of my favorite species. Literally bottomless pits. I had to force one to stop eating because I was worried it would burst the other day! Insane feeding responses, even in males.
Popa spurca really come in a wide variety of color, this is a beautiful female that ate my male
Another species I failed to breed, D. truncata. Amazing species just very finicky. She fatally wounded the male I had. I haven’t had the best of luck with breeding if you couldn’t tell haha.
P. perpulchra...another failed breeding attempt so far. Sexed one as male, molted and now is 100% female. This is them a few days after I got them.
H. orientalis, one of my favorite species. I only have a male from a friend, on the lookout for a female. Luckily these things are VERY long lived. Even the males!
I’m sure most seeing this know about my Idolomantis project, just a little picture from a photo shoot a few months ago.
E. pennata is defiantly one of my rarest species. Nearly unheard of in the US, just my luck that I ended up with 2 females arg! (Don’t mind my messy desk in the background ahah I’ve been rather busy lately, not much time to clean)
Finally, H. membranacea. The first mantis I got a definite fertile ooth from. I got very lucky to the point of my old male making it long enough to mate with a young female who was way behind on molts.
That’s all my species as of now, I will likely update this with significant molts of certain species or the acquisition of new species (I'm getting more soon), breeding, or ooth hatches.
