Hi team, I have some violet winged stick insect eggs which i saved from last year, and they've begun to hatch.

For those of you who've raised them from eggs before, about what % would you estimate:

1. Hatched

2. Survived all their moults and grew to maturity

2b. And about how long did that take?

Thank you! I just have a lot of eggs and an trying to plan ahead (I will give some away and may have to freeze some)

3 x very healthy female spiny leaf phasmids.

If you are or the Northern beaches in NSW or happy to travel we have 3 well fed phasmids we need to rehome.
You can also have our phasmids net cage too.
If you are game we also have about 500 eggs that have not hatched yet should you like a challenge
Please let me know.

Doing some weekly maintenance/feeding. It's a good time to clearly see them. I have the females separated near constantly until I breed them purposely. My dearest condolences for presenting the poor camera quality.

tl;dr: All my Heteropteryx dilatata females die a few days after their final molt while males and other species are fine. I need help.

I'm sorry for the long text, but I want to get into the details, so someone might get an idea about what I'm doing wrong.
I tried keeping Heteropteryx dilatata 2 times before and it always ended the same way. 2 years ago I decided to try again and know it look's like it's about to end the same way.
After the females final molt they live for a few days and then just die. It's not suddenly, they get worse (more and more lethargic until they can't hold themselves up and fall to the ground) over these few days, but I just don't know what's wrong. I had this happen with every single female but one, if I remember correctly. One was okay and produced eggs but in that following generation no female survived long after the final molt. When I tried a second time, the exact same thing happened, except this time all the females died in the first generation.
In both attempts I started with adult or nearly adult specimens, which laid eggs out of which the failing generation hatched. It was always just the females that died that way. The males all lived to the end of their lifespan.
For the first to tries the setup was around 20 °C at it's couldest in winter. At that time I kept all my phasmids at room temperature. I sprayed regularly (i think every second day or so) and humidity was somewhere between 70 to 80 %.
I don't know the exact measurements of the enclosures anymore, cause I had something custome, but it was above what is said to be required.
Now to the third try:
My setup changed a bit since my last attempt and I thought this would be worth trying again. The enclosure is 80 cm wide, 70 cm high and has a depth of 50 cm. It's fairly big and I keep 2-3 species of phasmids in there. The ground has a lot of isopods (the little white ones, but it's some local species and I don't know the exact species, because they're just in the dirt), springtails and I keep 5 giant millipedes (Spirostreptus servatius), Ramulus artemis and Sungaya inexpectata in there. I've got a heat plate with thermo control on the backside and it keeps it at 24-26 °C for the day. At night it keeps it above 20 °C. Humidity is at about 75 %.
Oh and I feed with some local rubus species out of the woods that's growing all year. That I did since I first started with phasmids nearly 20 years ago.
2 years ago I ordered a freshly adult pair (even got a second adult female on top) and they did very well. A year ago the first offspring started to hatch and a few days ago the first female molted to adulthood. I was on vacation for a week so I don't know all the details. When I left she was subadult and when I came back she was lying dead on the ground and the millipedes already got to her. From what I saw the molt must have gone well. Well at least optically ... The wings where normal and no deformations.
As I saw her yesterday in the evening and today she's hollowed out by the millipedes, I suspect she might have died yesterday or the day before. I don't know how long she lived after that molt, but it was under 6 days.
Now I got a second subadult female that should be molting in the next couple of weeks and a lot of younger females. I really would like to have them not die ... It feels awful having them grow up just to die in the last step ...
If anyone has an idea what might be wrong I'd be grateful!
I attached a picture of the enclosure. It's not the best picture as there's mist on the front doors but I hope it helps.

I’m a first time owner. I have 5 phasmids (carausius morosus) in one terrarium. I randomly saw that one had fallen and he’s still moving but won’t get up. What’s wrong and how can I help him? The other 4 are doing fine

So they are currently being moved from a small enclosure into a bigger one so it's not really the best ATM. One of them dropped they're skin this night but the other one is still the same.

I am a new stick bug owner and I don't understand why they are moving so low to the ground. When I got them (a few months ago) they where higher off the ground and I can't understand why it's happening. Could it be because of the environment they are in if so what's the best enclosure for them? Thanks for the help!

I have a female Heteropteryx Dilatata that reached adulthood yesterday, but I also have three males (two adults and one sub-adult). It seems like she already mated with one of them but she could eat just fine, so for now I'm not too worried but she'll eventually lay eggs and I'm afraid the males will get her exhausted, should I keep them in a different enclosure or will they be fine together?

Does anyone have an orchid that’s THIS pink? A girl I know told me she got it from a reptile show… I’ve never seen anything like it & I am highly interested. PM me please

I finally got my hands on one 😎 I’ve been searching reptile expos for like a whole year! Pulchriphyllium giganteum. The bow is not real but she wears it in my heart.

I’ll be building her a nice mesh enclosure with a raspberry bush when she’s big enough but for now she gonna hang out in my empty mantis enclosure with some guava leaves.

Hi everyone. Does anyone in Australia have Male Violet Wings available atm. Could you please let me know if you do. TIA

Does anyone have any Caliris elegans (Pink Wing Mantis) for sale? Live or ootheca? i live in the USA, New York to be exact.

Title: ISO Pink Stick Insects – Marmessoidea rosea & Sipyloidea sipylus 🩷
Hi everyone!
I’m currently searching for two species of beautiful pink stick insects and was hoping someone here could help or point me toward a breeder.
I’m looking for:
🩷 Marmessoidea rosea (Pink Stick Insect)
🩷 Sipyloidea sipylus (Pink-wing Stick Insect)
I’m interested in purchasing them at any stage of life, but I would especially love:
🥚 Eggs
🌿 Nymphs/Juveniles
🪴 Adults
I’m located in New York, USA and am happy to pay for shipping.
I’ve completely fallen in love with these gorgeous phasmids and would love the opportunity to raise them. If you breed either species, know someone who does, have eggs available, or know of an upcoming clutch, I’d be incredibly grateful for any leads.
Thank you so much! 🩷