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Hi!! My C.gemmatus female is 11 days old now and she is moving their abdomen up and down and it looks like she has no end eating and eating... she ate 3 mealworm (small ones) and 1 bbf today. Something went wrong?? Should i be worried? Is that the "breeding call"? If it was the breeding time...

I have some Creobroter gemmatus (6) who loves to eat flies but they are no longer eating them ( 3 of them), they are on the top for like 2/3 days and i dont know if they are getting ready for their final molt... i noticed one of them with something like small "wings" (just from today and...

First at all i have to say that i was reading a lot about this in this forum and i found mantis can grow up with days between same L, but could i find a c.gemmatus with the same L 3 weeks ago is now 2 L bigger than the rest? Or there is a big difference between male and female? I will post pics...

Hi, firstly i have to say sorry if there is this information on the forum, i found about it on it but not sure if my problem is good or bad.  I have my Hydei culture full of eggs, but i noticed today a white mold in a few parts of the culture and im worried about it....  I changed all my...

After a month of wait and a DIY enclosures my mantis arrived at home. I have 3M and 3F from ghost mantis and 6 c.gematus (too small to sexing them).  I took them to their new home with no touching them and gave some hydei flies. Some are resting on the top and i would like to know if they...

Hi, i will get on 25t/26th from this month my first mantis: 5x Phyllocrania paradoxa. 5x Creobroter gemmatus. I bought today some 37 oz cup (it was impossible to find 32 oz) and i will try to do my own DIY. Can someone help me to decide what to use on the lid? Maybe the mesh holes could be...

Hi, i was thinking about to breeding mantis (my first mantis), so i was looking for easy to breed species and someone talked me about limbata or phantom mantis. More advices? I would choose 1 or 2 species to start. I would like to have a small group (i assume they cant be together) assuring...

Hi! Im a Spanish 27 years old man and biologist who is really interested in Arthropoda. I bred phasmids, tarantula, scorpins and moths before among others... I was reading a lot about mantis and how to keep them and i hope to learn a lot before buying anything.