Photo's to challenge macro junkie!

AshMashMash · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 12:03 AM

No, not really. No one could even compare theirs to macro junkie's

... but these are some (like I say, no where near as good as macro junkies) photos of my new stick insects, took with my webcam:

What do you think?

macro junkie · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 05:28 AM

took with your web cam..lol good shots tho for web cam///your stick insect is so cool

AshMashMash · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by macro junkie

took with your web cam..lol good shots tho for web cam///your stick insect is so cool

Thanks! Yeh, I got the webcam off ebay for like 13 quid, and it turns out its really good. It can focus up to things so close to the lens, that it can acutally focus on the glass lense of the camera... which is pretty cool, if you get what I mean. The only trouble I had was keeping my hands still enough to get the shots with it.

Yeh, got the stick insects yday, they are cool aren't they!

captaincaveman · #4 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 12:05 PM

This is the best pics of my two species of sticks i could manage with my cheap camera

id love to be able to get in closer

AshMashMash · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 03:19 PM

They're well cool CC.

Can any one help me? I have brambles in there, and privet and eucalyptus. I have sprayed the tank lots, and this afternoon I have seen that 1 out of 4 of the stick insects is just about dead. I have changed the brambles, as it looked like they were struggling to eat them (they were quite dark green and tuff), and now they are soft and green, but it still looks like they are stuggling to eat them.

Is this why the little one is dying/dead? Or is dehydrated? Wrong temps? (room temp)

Ta

captaincaveman · #6 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by AshMashMash

They're well cool CC.

Can any one help me? I have brambles in there, and privet and eucalyptus. I have sprayed the tank lots, and this afternoon I have seen that 1 out of 4 of the stick insects is just about dead. I have changed the brambles, as it looked like they were struggling to eat them (they were quite dark green and tuff), and now they are soft and green, but it still looks like they are stuggling to eat them.

Is this why the little one is dying/dead? Or is dehydrated? Wrong temps? (room temp)

Ta

im still learning on sticks, but mine are kept on a viv to get the heat from the ceramics underneath, i believe your to be australian too

mine are Eurycantha calcarataand Aretaon asperrimus which both require humid conditions, i found this on yoiur species

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Foodplant in captivity: I use bramble, oak and sometimes eucalyptus. Ursula (of Stick Talk) has great success using California Wax Myrtle (Myrica californica) as the sole foodplant.
Humidity requirements: I personally keep this species in a plastic tank that has ventilation holes in the lid. Other enthusiasts have success in more or less ventilated containers. They don't seem to need to drink a lot of water - I mist only once a week, and then only lightly.
Comment: I owe my current success with this species to Cameron Die Konigin (a member of Stick Talk and a committee member of the PSG). Recently many phasmid enthusiasts, including myself, had found that most of our Extatosoma tiaratum population were not surviving to adulthood. This was particularly surprising since Extatosoma tiaratum used to be a very popular and easy-to-rear species, having once been a common classroom pet, alongside Carausius morosus. Several people theorised that the species might be becoming inbred, and so Cameron started a programme of out-breeding, whereby he obtained stock from breeders all over the world, and mixed them with the 'weak' UK stock

AshMashMash · #7 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by captaincaveman

im still learning on sticks, but mine are kept on a viv to get the heat from the ceramics underneath, i believe your to be australian too.. ..i found this on yoiur species

Thanks. Yes, I had actually seen that particular information before, suggesting they might die early. However, I dont think that is the cause of one of mine dying, as they have lived to the size they are now (3-4cm ish), and not died, so it suggests its something I am doing wrong.

I did have them on top of my BRB's tank, like yours, with a ceramic bulb underneath, but it seemed quite warm. Most sites suggest room temperature is fine.

They have bramble, privet and eucalyptus in their tank. There is some clear evidence of eating the euc. leaves, as this is what they travelled with. But nothing else.

Maybe I sprayed too much.. again though, some websites say spray twice daily!

They box they are in is this:

It is about 1ft high, and has mesh covering the top. It has the plants in a cup with wet vermiculite in.

What do you think?

captaincaveman · #8 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by AshMashMash

Thanks. Yes, I had actually seen that particular information before, suggesting they might die early. However, I dont think that is the cause of one of mine dying, as they have lived to the size they are now (3-4cm ish), and not died, so it suggests its something I am doing wrong.

I did have them on top of my BRB's tank, like yours, with a ceramic bulb underneath, but it seemed quite warm. Most sites suggest room temperature is fine.

They have bramble, privet and eucalyptus in their tank. There is some clear evidence of eating the euc. leaves, as this is what they travelled with. But nothing else.

Maybe I sprayed too much.. again though, some websites say spray twice daily!

They box they are in is this:

It is about 1ft high, and has mesh covering the top. It has the plants in a cup with wet vermiculite in.

What do you think?

To be honest, it would be hard for me to say at this level of my knowledge, maybe its just a sick individual, maybe its humidity, i wouldn't know for sure.

Do you collect your bramble well away from the roads? as road pollution can be a major issue

Now if it was a carpet python, beardie, leo or something like that, where i got over a decade of time with em, then i'd hazard a guess, i think ive only kept these a month or so

Mine are in tall exo-terra's

AshMashMash · #9 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by captaincaveman

To be honest, it would be hard for me to say at this level of my knowledge, maybe its just a sick individual, maybe its humidity, i wouldn't know for sure.

Do you collect your bramble well away from the roads? as road pollution can be a major issue

Now if it was a carpet python, beardie, leo or something like that, where i got over a decade of time with em, then i'd hazard a guess, i think ive only kept these a month or so

Mine are in tall exo-terra's

lol, ok, ta anyway!

Yeh: the first lot of brambles, which they didn't eat, was from a canal side. The second lot is from a park, a long way from roads. I did try to make sure it wasn't from near a road... theres not many places in london that aren't near a road! lol

Yeh, they are only in that whilst they are little tiny things. I am going to upgrade them to some sort of large RUB type box, again with a mesh lid, when they are slightly bigger.

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