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    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.
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    The video is pretty cool; that FF is pretty big and Mantis had no issues about taking it down !
    Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !​

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mentat View Post
    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.

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    Then doofy fried

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    Quote Originally Posted by Monza geckos View Post
    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.

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    I went to post some of my insect related stuff on arachnoboards and its been HACKED!!! Be careful frog forum moderators as FF could be next.

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