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I did it first. It was me. It was me! Let me look at this...
One day ago... five days ago
It was me. I'm the original Rose gold like the iPhone hair, not her. Not her. Hey, what's up guys?
It's Taylor and yeah, I don't know if ya'll saw but yeah, Kylie Jenner got Rose gold hair and
you know she's being credited for
creating it when it was me. I created it. I am the sole creator. I invented the haircolor
It did not exist before me. I really hope my sarcasm translates well with ya'll.
Yeah, know I did not invent this hair color. Actually when I got it done the lady who was doing my hair, my stylist,
she told me she saw it at Fashion week
And that it's going to blow up in a month or so and be the next new color
So I was like getting ahead of the trend and boy was she right because four days later, Kylie Jenner
Invented the hair color that I had. So yeah, Kylie Jenner copied me. I'm sure, I'm positive she saw my picture
And she took it to her hairstylist and said she wanted it. It's not like she would be at Fashion week or anything like that
It's not like she has those kinds of connections. It's not like she's into fashion. She's just really into animal care and
saw my rose gold hair and wanted it. That's actually what it was. Anyway, so today
I'm going to be talking about praying mantis care actually. I'm obviously not in my room. I just wanted a table
I just really wanted a table to put my stuff on for this video because
Trying to do it on my bed would just be really difficult. So today we're going to be talking about praying
Mantis's and how to take care of them. So mainly today
We're going to be talking about how to set up a praying mantis
Terrarium. Setting up a praying mantis terrarium is actually one of the easiest things ever in the world because as you know
They're not very big and they don't need a lot of room. Basically you want it to be taller than it is wide
You really want the enclosure to be at least two times as big as they are wide in about three times as big as they
are tall. The best and easiest way I can explain it. For example if you have a hatchling or a young praying mantis
any kind of Juvenile. They can fit in a little cup like this. This is a very simple cup. All you need is some substrate which
um, Eco Earth really does the best the coconut fiber...
Eco Earth.
and then you need some sticks for them to be able to climb and perches for them to hang upside down when they are ready
To molt. very simple setup you want it to be somewhat ventilated so they can get some air flow and circulation
In their tank, and it won't be completely stiff and still they do fine with room temperature
you don't need to you know give them a heater or anything like that and as long as they get some sort of light even if its just your bedroom light they're going to be fine
You definitely don't need a lamp on them or anything like that, one of the best things you can do for your praying
Mantises cage is just to recreate their environment that they live in
Suburbs and cities you will find praying mantis' in gardens because that's where they like to live. For this video
I have a Budwing mantis, which is one of the more common species of mantises, and I'm pretty sure it is a male
I'm not positive yet. I'm not positive yet
you cannot successfully keep a male and female together their whole life if they choose to mate the female will eat the male when they
Decide to mate so that's fun
It's really best to just limit it to one mantis per enclosure
So they don't fight or get territorial or anything like that, [so] like I said as a juvenile mantis. This is a perfectly fine
Setup and for smaller species of mantis. This is actually going to be fine their whole life
They won't require an upgrade, but I actually am going to be giving my praying mantis an upgrade. For today
I'm actually out of Eco Earth
I need to go buy some more, so I will not have enough substrate to really make it thick in this container
I'm only going to be using what I already had in this container in here
So this is how you set up a praying mantis container.
I wouldn't really use a rounded fishbowl because they like to climb and if it's all rounded they're not going to be able to
grip on the sides
I really like the like octagon hexagon
Those kind of shapes or the cylinder shapes where they have the top and bottom to grasp onto?
When you're setting up their habitat the first thing you want to do is put the substrate in.
I might have some fruit flies in here, so I hope they don't fall out. So on a stick
I have Moriarty, here he is. I call him Mo or Mori
But his name is moriarty comes from Sherlock holmes. The name comes from the villain in Sherlock holmes
I named him that because my tarantula is named Cerise
Which is what I would like to call the villain in game of thrones
And because of that I kind of wanted to keep the trend going and give my other
"creepy crawly"
animal another villain name. I'm going to put him already in the container because I don't want to lose him while I'm setting this up
Or he doesn't want to be in the container
He wants to hold on to me, okay then.
So when a praying mantis molts here's what a praying mantis' molt looks like. It literally just looks like a floppy version of their
their own selves. Sorry about my really dirty nails
That's really disgusting but I didn't realize it was like that until this moment that was from digging around in my cages
I really have to do a lot of nail care to keep my nails clean
I'm just going to go ahead and pour all of this into the container
Here's the container so far with the eco Earth on the bottom next you just want to decorate it and recreate their natural
Habitat basically. I really wouldn't recommend getting your
Your decorations from Your own backyard
because you don't know what has been you know you have any kind of bug treatments on the or pesticides
Or most people really don't know what is on their plants and their backyard and things like that
So it's best to, I get fake stuff
I mean it still looks cute, and I don't have to worry about it dying off. Anyway, we're just going to decorate it now and
Yeah, I got some cool leaves here
Just going to put some things around in there
And you just want to make it where he can have lots of opportunities to climb around
Some places he can hide. Things like that.
Kind of hard to see but he is now in there
He's on this side now when it comes to lids for the tank you have a few options
I have all three right here with me. First, you could just do a regular
Lid like this. Big issue with this is that you're not going to get circulation
I really would recommend cutting little tiny holes into something like this if you're going to use just a regular lid
The next options are these there actually is a difference between these two things this right here
is a lid like this one, but this center right here is covered in
wire as you can see, you can like, see through. but it has holes cut in it, so you could do something like this
But if you're going to be feeding them things like fruit flies, which you will that's what they eat
There's a chance of them getting out
So if you're going to do this during feeding, I would put the regular lid on top
like this to prevent the fruit flies from getting out and this is the one I use which is a
regular Lid instead of Mesh
We're using a cloth almost paper towel material
and this one is my favorite because even during feeding it could just always stay on and
The fruit flies can't get out
But the cloth material allows for ventilation to go through and that is how you make a praying mantis enclosure
That's really all you have to do for enclosures
if you don't want to look for all these
Materials at like Walmart and Target and things like that you can always go on to websites and get them there
I got these fake flowers from I want to say it was like called that mantis place or something like that
But I'll put it right here and put it in the description and they also sell preying mantises themselves
So if you don't know where to get one. I've never ordered a praying mantis from them or any website
So I'm not saying that I personally know how it goes when you do that
I just know it's available there it comes to feeding as
Juveniles to young adults they can eat fruit flies, and that could be their staple diet, and they will be okay
You can also feed them treats like honey
And things like that which are also things that they enjoy eating. When they're older they can eat Dubia roaches
I would stay away from crickets, crickets can actually kill preying mantises because they can't digest them properly
And it's just not fun. instead, I'd stick to Dubia roaches
larger species of flies
Things like that. so yeah, you really have a few options when it comes to feeding. fruit flies has been the easiest for me
I've seen a tremendous amount of growth in my praying mantis every single day
He molts wonderfully, he does all of that great and all he eats are fruit flies
They do not live that long when it comes to lifespans they live anywhere from like four to nine months
And that is about it. I believe only a few species live to nine months, and that's like at most
So you're not really going to see that too often but I do mist my mantis cage down so lightly about
Three times a week, I just do like one tiny little squirt and that helps him get water other than that
He's gonna get all of his water around eating his fruit flies about every two weeks
Just freshen up the cage give them some new Eco Earth
Just make it a little brighter and cleaner, and that's really all you have to do
You know when they're going to molt because they will hang upside down from normally the top of their enclosure
Just don't feed them during this time. They're going to reject the food and you [don't] want a lot of fruit flies
Just hanging around in there while they're molting that will stress them out. Thank you all guys for [watching]
I hope you guys enjoyed how y'all likin' this new light though. My new lighting is so nice. [oh] my strap is twisted
Oh, I hope it wasn't like that the whole video.
No, no, no, she's, girl!
Kylie Jenner stole my hair. This is happening.