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THAT IS SO COOL!! I saw you pics of the tiny ones on a link you had a while back. So, you raise the mantids??? They are so beautiful. Great pics!!!! You raise them for fun? Food? I don't know much about raising insects and such for pets! Tell me about it when you have time!

Hate to mention it because I have in the forums many times recently, but might be worth checking about the bulb really being UVB/heat lamp combo. If you throw away the box you may not be able to check. I made a mistake thinking mine was a combo bulb with lethal consequences. Mine was a female...

Right, you might have crickets everywhere!

My male cham is recovering from having an infected elbow lanced. I'm giving him antibiotics and flushing the wound as intructed by the vet. It appears to be healing nicely but still has inflamation (went to vet about 5 days ago). It appears a toe (on same leg) was injured at some point too...

Fun, fun, fun, and so hansome!

You'll have loads of fun watching/caring for him! Do you have the long, tube-type UVB lights? I just saw what looks like a heat lamp. My first cham died cause I accidentally bought a uva bulb that went in the heat lamp; I thought it was a UVB. I didn't know until it was too late. Be sure...

I have a small (unknown age) male veiled cham. Glad I haven't had any bites yet. Had a female she didn't bite either, thank goodness!

Euwww, our walking sticks in central TX can get huge, as long as your forearm. They are ulgy. In some areas around we get little hoards of them. I was at a home once near a lake and in their yard, one the trees and all over the house there were easily 1,000 of them. I couldn't believe how...

I don't know but I think nature needs all the live bees right now. I keep hearing about a horrible dive in bee populations and scientist don't know why (they want to say it's possible green-house affect, but they don't know).:confused:

Isopod??? What's that?:confused:

He is so cute in that third picture! Good one!;)

Funny, but I live in a tiny, silly, little, TX town with a lot of nosie, busy-bodies, so I'm always trying to fly under the radar... Not use to it cause I was a city girl.:o:rolleyes:

Regarding the "pain we tolerate for loving our chams", has anyone been bitten by theirs? Mine (my female when she was alive) and my male have threatened at times, but it always seems like a "false" threat and I've never been bitten. Does it hurt?:confused: I think to myself "how bad could it...

Wouldn't that be the opposite of contempt? I mean your pet doesn't have contempt for you because it's familiar, but does have contempt for your unfamiliar friends, right....

Your too funny...LOL:D

Yes, I couldn't feed my cham a mantis either, I love to watch them too much. My cham loves something similar though. Those larege lime-green grasshoppers that are more soft bodied than regular grasshopers, we call them katydids (sp?) here. They have long softwings and very long legs (longer...

It is amazing to me how big some of the veiled chams are, esp the males. I have a adult male of unknown age, so I don't know how big he will get (once I get him healthy).

I suspect, at best, my chams have thought of me as a large, warm, safe, rock (only softer) that provides treats and interesting places on which to climb (my hair & head) and warm, dark places to hide and sleep (in my shirt, or PJs). That's fine with me, I don't mind being the provider of those...

A saw a cham giving birth to live babies on a documentary (appeared to be in the wild). She didn't even look back to see what was comming out. The babies just dropped whereever, some got hung-up on branches and some falling down to the grownd. They were covered with a slippery afterbirth but...

Okay, that make sense, thanks.