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Thank you for your response! And lol I wish I could give him the chance to mate at least once :'( But the live-bearing aspect about Jacksons makes that a no-go because I can't care for all those young'ins

thank you, so helpful! what a great vid. :)

yeah his horns are so wonky. I hear that's a thing for Jacksons from the Hawaiian bloodline (so basically all the ones in the U.S. pet trade), due to imbreeding. I love the wacky horns either way!

oh wow, thank you so much! I feel much better phew. that checks out, since he's just about to turn 1.5 or 2 (not sure his exact age). but it would probably make sense for him to be reaching sexual maturity now

Hi again dear folks. So just today for the first time I noticed Wesley doing this head ticking thing. I am super concerned :'( He is hanging out in his out-of-cage area where he has trees, and uvb overhead. He has his own whole room with lots of privacy. He also has access back to his cage via...

Awesome, so I'll keep with what I've got. branches are placed right, i just need to stop moving them around the lights. I got them both from viv electronics and they're both 24" (the grow light and the uvb). thanks so much!

hey ya'll so i have had the very light and fixture recommended here , basically since right after this. all going well - just wanted to double check, should I upgrade to a double fixture, or does it not make a big difference? just wondering because sometimes i find myself moving the light around...

hahaa thank you! And no way another MA person! i thought i'd never see the day. whereabouts in mass?

yes, that is defintiely how im gonna have to do it in the future. he just loved being outside so much, it just made me consider how i can give him that experience in the future MINUS the whole getting lost part. so i will definitely do it this way next time

i would gladly spend money on that!!

lol i know, that would be awesome!

yeah i think this experience definitely taught me that wes can be sneaky and never to underestimate him and how much he observes / waits til im not looking! 😄

i really messed up here and feel like the luckiest idiot in the world right now. Wesley was gone for a week, in a wooded area, next to a much BIGGER wooded area with many hawks. i am in MA. this could have been bad. but after a week straight of searching day and night, sobbing, climbing trees...

I ordered my carolina ooths from insectsales.com. Haha kind of took a risk there since it seemed possibly not legit, but they arrived quickly and intact! then the chinese ooths i get from amazon. they have alot of different options on there, but just for chinese mantids as far as i can tell.

ok that is a relief to hear. could be the carrots i was using to gutload my BSFL.. i know those arent ideal gutload, but its all i can get the BSFL to go for. i will crack the next one open if i see another :)

i stopped about a month ago bc he never showed interest in dubias, and never really ate all the crickets, making it hard to collect the rest at night. also i had many escape, bc my 2x2x4 reptibreeze has very large gaps on the side and i didnt feel like always replacing the tape there. i had some...

Yes, I turn the ac on high all night and it generally gets down to 60 for the low. it is kind of a gradual drop though - it goes from 75 at 7 pm, to about 70 by 10 pm, then usually hits 65 around midnight, and 60 by 2 am. then the ac turns off at 7 am. and i will try increasing fogging at night...

i know orange urates means dehydrated.. but i wanted to check for sure if thats the case here. i found the poop on the other side of the cage away from the urate which i havent seen before either. poop looked normal. Up to today, i have never seen him produce a non-healthy urate. since getting...

I have 4 ooths right now that should hatch any day. 2 carolina, 2 chinese. my guy ate all the remaining ones from that chaotic batch before they got too big

luckily my guy loves them so they go fast for me. but they dont really provide him the enrichment of hunting, so im always throwing in some flies and mantids too. but that same thing happened with me with hornworms once...they got about the size of a finger and i left them with their chow they...