I've seen very negative experiences from other subreddits about this website and the last few posts were from last year. Has dubia.com improved, still bad as people say, or should I take a gamble and do an order that has been sitting in my cart for a few days now?
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I was DEFINITELY doing something wrong when I just had my 2 chinese mantids, because I have a i5 R.Stalli that grew to damn near the same size as my chinese mantids from i4 to i5. My R.Stalli is also a male
When I first got my pair of Chinese mantids, I fed them fruit flies from i2 - i5 (i shouldve started feeding bottle flies earlier). But a week into i4 for both my mantids I started feeding blue bottle flies as soon as they emerged from their pupae and the time intervals between my mantid's molts went from 4 weeks to 2 weeks. Between each molt I would document how much cm they grew and it was not as much as I expected. They are both currently i7 and males and they are both 4.6 cm and I do not believe they are subadult. Images shows the wing buds on one of them, my hand size, and hand to mantis comparison. I dont actually know if this is normal growth or if my mantids are smaller then avg because of my decisions
I was just wondering what this community thought of feeding crickets
Pros:
Widely available
Cheap
Decent protein
Cons:
Can fight back
Dangerous if left in enclosure
Carry parasites and diseases
I just learned what gut loading was and now i know why my mantids arent satisfied (full) with one freshly hatched fly. How long should I let the flies feed on the special diet (the one im going to use is banana and powdered milk) before feeding them to my mantids?
Im suspecting the black dot on the eye is eye rub
T. Sinesis
I left him out to eat when I was doing something for a few minutes, when I come back he is no where to be seen. I checked every nook and cranny for him but I came to the conclusion that my cat killed him, he was looking at my mantis intently and I ignored that sign. This is all my fault, I'm so sorry Nathan.
I personally don't believe my mantis is in subadult stage right now judging by size
Chinese Mantis
Male
1 inch 2.1 cm (cm is rounded up)
i7
I live right next to my wifi router and my storage is only 40% filled, why does this keep happening?
i can tell specs if you want