New bugs!!!

[Monza geckos]

What species you got at the mo

[Truffs1178]

Currently just indian flower and Egyptian. When I said pachnoda I just meant mantids in general. I'm going to get a larger species like giant Asian mantids soon.

[Truffs1178]

Started a fruit fly culture to feed the babies. It's just mashed bananas with moist cotton wool. The maggots/larvae of the flys eat the bananas and the adult flys lay eggs in the moist cotton wool. It's pretty cool how fast they breed but I guess you have to if your lifespan from egg to adult is only about 10 days.

[Mentat]

The video is pretty cool; that FF is pretty big and Mantis had no issues about taking it down !

[Truffs1178]

The video is pretty cool; that FF is pretty big and Mantis had no issues about taking it down !

And since fruit flys don't have biting mouthparts they can't injure the mantids which is lucky. Last year a baby locust that was in my giant african mantid enclosure at the mantis nymph! The nymph was shedding and was vulnerable but I didn't realize the locust was still in with it.

[Monza geckos]

Then doofy fried

[Truffs1178]

Then doofy fried

Lol yes, but I actually called him doody after he got on the heat lamp. I immediately started misting him with cold water to help the burns and he recovered but was weak. Then when he shed he became strong again but after a while became weak and died. R.I.P. Doofy.