My giant shield molted over night, and this is about two days after it happened? I’ve left it completely alone, haven’t even opened its enclosure, but the abdomen looks weirdly colored to me and it’s moving a lot more than normal, or so I think.
Is it ok?
So… I’ve been doing decent with these fruit flies, but now it seems more are not in fact flightless….. so I tried putting it in a freezer for a bit like I’ve seen some recommend but…. I couldn’t get any out after I did that 😭 please give me some tips on how to do this, idk what I’m doing but I’ve got two young mantis to feed (idk how old they are)
Hello! I’ve recently fallen in love with mantis, and that love has blossomed to other insects, creatures I was scared of or disgusted by. But now, I’ve found a new interest in them.
I wanted to start collecting pinned insects, and in looking for some to buy to start, I found some beginner pinning insect kits and it make me wonder if I could learn how to, and now I just so happened to stumble upon this forum. So I would like to ask…. How do I get started?
So… what’s the best way to water a mantis? Giving it some spritz’s in the morning or just giving it a shallow bowel of water?
I found another Carolina mantis yesterday and took it home, planning on releasing both if my Carolina’s when they’re ready and in the fall!
When I woke up, she had molted over night!!!! I had no idea she was even preparing to molt, but I’m so happy she looks healthy because I’ve heard that molting is the most difficult to deal with!
I’m unsure where to go from here though, should I still mist her this morning? How long until she hardens? Is she an adult now?
So I’ve seen some people say not to feed your pets crickets from Petsmart.
I have two mantis atm, a Carolina and Chinese. The Chinese was wild caught and it hasn’t eaten yet, but the Carolina, also wild caught, had eaten a single cricket yesterday and three a few days ago. (He attempted to catch another cricket yesterday but failed)
Anyway, I got these crickets from Petsmart after I tried to feed my Carolina mealworms when I first got him, he didn’t want the worms and in his defense they were pretty big compared to him so I left him he until I could buy crickets.
Now the thing is… I don’t have that many pet shops around me, petsmart alone is about 45 minutes away? I think?
I also tried to feed my Chinese the mealworms because it is significantly bigger than my Carolina so I figured that’d be ok… but it hasn’t eaten yet, and I just chalked it up to it not being hungry as I did just get it yesterday.
I am VERY new to the mantis keeping hobby, like, I didn’t plan to take any mantis from the wild but then I saw my Carolina, which in itself is a whole different story and this post is already longer and more rambley than id like so!
I would like some help and tips on where to get healthy feeders, I’ve already accepted that I’m most likely going to have to order them. But after I get them, how do I keep the feeders healthy for my mantis? What are some of the better feeders? (My mom will absolutely not allow me to bring roaches into the house so those are out unfortunately)
Literally any feeder advice is GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!
Hello again!! A little while ago I asked for help identifying a mantis I found at my work. Well this morning my coworker took me outside and showed me this!! I scooped her up (gently) and would like help to find out what it is!
I live in Ohio, the app I used to try and check what it is tells me it’s an Asian mantis
So I got a Carolina mantis (as an amazing person id’d for me here) about three days ago, and I’ve kept him in a cup until today I was able to get him a proper cage
Well, I’ve given him climbing sticks and whatnot plus some soil. I tried feeding him mealworms the day after I got him after I failed to catch flies.
While getting him his cage, I bought some small crickets for him. I put two crickets in the cage, and introduced him…. And he immediately climbed to the top… he had been sitting on the top of the cup I had him in to. Is he trying to molt? The cage I got him doesn’t have a mesh top, and when I tried to add one it wouldn’t stay so I had to remove it.
I don’t know when the last time he ate was so it’s possible he just isn’t hungry but I’m worried?
I found this mantis a few weeks ago in a garden bed I was deadheading, and it struck my interest in mantis to the point I’ve been preparing to start getting them as pets
Fast forward to today, I was in the same spot and saw him again but this time grabbed him.
Any idea what species it is? And what I can feed it until I get paid so I can buy food? (I planned on going shopping when I get paid which is in two days)
I also have a picture of when I saw him some time ago if it is the same one
(Ik im referring to it as he but I do not know his gender)
Looking for people to play with, and to just make friends in general. I’m extremely shy and anxious so I apologize for any awkwardness.
I love to tame and breed Dino’s, mainly looking for color mutations but also just making some good Dino’s.
I also like to collect, my favorite dinosaurs are acros, cryos, megaraptors, and most small cute critters.
I prefer little to no mods on pve servers, as I like to build pretty bases without fear of dying, but tribe wars every once in a while is ok!
I prefer people over 18
Thank you in advanced!
Disclaimer: I am not at all trying to bash these people, nor is it that deep, I’m just very emotional and had a long day so I’m a little more upset about things than usual, but at the end of the day it’s not that serious.
I hop on to simply do some missions for the day, as I’d been at work all day, it was a long and tiring day so I just wanted to unwind…. Picking CoS to do that is…. A choice, Ik
I’m flying around on my little ice wyvern (can’t remember the name, is is 10pm as I write this and I’m tired) and I get attacked by a little oxy, it’s whatever, I breath on it to show my dissatisfaction. I do this for maybe 5-10 minutes? Overkill Ik, but I knew I wasn’t actually doing damage to it (and it had an adult with it) so after they go into a cave I leave to continue collecting my mush piles.
When I’m finished I decide to play an angelic I hatched at a random nest just while I wait for the time in the daily mission. I fly around and end up in the area where the oxy duo (now a trio) were, I saw them heading towards pride rocks, and from the looks of it they were kosing. (I have no idea if they actually were, it’s just what it looked like so)
I knew there was a group of people there chilling so I fly over and start to text “kosing oxy group otw, beware”
But I remember when I type oxy, I get censored, so I try to figure out a way to warn them when an alecuda (or however you spell it) kills me…. I was like “I was just trying to warn ya’ll, so very unhappy about trying to be nice, I delete the slot and make a noxu.
I’d never had a noxu before so I was curious to see how it played. The moment I spawn in, I’m in flower cove, so I decide to head towards fragmented spire to get some sat. There was a baby eldervine ahead of me, and I was thinking to myself “huh that’s a cool skin” without realizing we were heading the same direction.
I’m then attacked and killed by an adult puffwump, and I’m *assuming* it attacked me because it looked like I was hunting the elder, which just wasn’t happening we were just heading the same way. So I switch servers, restart the slot, and this time I’m in the mountains and I’m immediately attacked by a sarc. I escape and grow to adult, and I’m like “let’s go see what’s going on in oasis” since I really didn’t care about this slot. Things were fighting, drama, the typical. Well I head down to get some water and get attacked by a geo, why? Idk I think they were kosing. I escaped the geo but get low killed by a liss, which annoyed me. I took a break, deleted the noxu and was just ready to go to bed.
Well I stayed up a little longer to get the final daily creature I need and I decide to play it for a bit… but I’m thrown into the same server that the kosing geo was in, and I’m guessing they swapped specs to continue kosing with a turrim friend, but I ended up dying to them.
Now here I am, done with the game for the night. But it’s really frustrating that all this happened in one night
Again, no hate to any of these players for playing the game, I’ve just had a really bad day and I wish that these events hadn’t happened today, or at least not this close together, I had no good experiences tonight either to kinda combat them.
Ik Jhiggo isn’t very popular but I’m mainly looking for traits for one to survive better and just make it more fun to play!
Are they picked out of the species you own? Or random of every species?
With june coming to an end, the chance to get the pearl mutation is as well. I fell in love with pearl when I was looking at the mutations, it's so pretty and I adore it. I've also fallen in love with sequid, so I was aiming to get a dmg + weight pearl sequid, its the only slot I've ever really wanted.
But due to my working, and the LSS event, I have barely been able to grind it out. I grind whenever I can, and I sometimes get red traits but not a double red, and sometimes I can go through 50 eggs with an upgraded nest and octo plushie before getting a single pearl.
I could just wait until next year.... but I need to be in a mood for certain games, if not I wont/cant play them, so there is a good chance I wont be playing next year in june to be able to hunt again.
Was it stupid of me to fall in love with a monthly mutation and want a good one to use? Def. Buy now here we are, just a couple days before the end of june, and I've given up all hope. I'm still grinding it, but I'm not expecting anything.
It's just very disheartening and sad to watch the days go by when I am unable to nest hunt, knowing it will be gone soon.
I know this rant wasn't really as interesting as some of the others, but I just really wanted to put this somewhere, and where better than a place for ranting? Feel free to share your failed hunts in the comments if you'd like, and thanks for reading <3
As an aspiring florist I adore overgrown hygos, and was wondering what the best build for them is?
What are your rules for kosing? Like what will you kill and not kill? What’s the weirdest reason you’ve ever spared someone?
I don’t care if people kos, I’m just curious as to individuals views and codes on it!
(Ik there’s so set rules, I want to know your own person rules and morals)
My ps5 has stopped connecting to the internet, I’m tried forgetting the internet and reconnecting but nothing, please can anyone help?
As an aspiring florist, I would really love to see a floral gacha….
“But OP, what about photovores/photocarnis?”
Why yes they do count, but I want a more species that aren’t just photovores/carnis
“But the creature you posted is a photovore”
Yes yes ik, but it’s my first one, and I wasn’t kinda distracted while making it, so as the designs go on, I’m hoping to get more creative with them!
Anyway ty for reading :)
So, I completed the quest and got my plushie but is there a way to tell if I’ve unlocked the sky bison species permanently? I’m trying to collect all the species so I want to make sure I’ve got this one.
Why do players request to join nests just to steal the other eggs
I was nesting as a silli, trying to get a break from grinding literally everything, so I’m trying to get a good play session going where I play as a creature how I think it would be played, nest some people, have a pack ect.
Well someone requested to join my nest so after I got two eggs, I accepted. Well as I’m inviting other people, my egg disappears. I’m like “oh wow two babies already!” But no, the other silli took my egg and then ran, I lost it and have no idea where it went. I didn’t even know silli could steal eggs.
But what’s the point in joining a nest to just…. Steal the eggs? This rant is not targeted towards people who play egg steals, only the ones that join nests purely to steal eggs.
Anyway thanks for listening, absolutely annoying behavior.