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Humidity and moulting - fact or fiction?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jesse" data-source="post: 195" data-attributes="member: 16"><p>Trust me, the surface area was not the problem, in some of the enclosures I had a shallow layer of water on the bottom. I rear too many mantids at a time to get fancy with substrate. Also I have given them plenty of room, and the entire top of the enclosures are mesh. I stay away from putting too many perches in an enclosure because I have had many a mantis decide to molt low on a perch too close to the bottom, and get all bent and deformed or not make it out of the molt (because they run out of room). My best guess is that it may be temperature related. My ghost mantids have been molting to adults around this same time and they are kept at 40-50% humidity, and I have had no problems with them? I appreciate the advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jesse, post: 195, member: 16"] Trust me, the surface area was not the problem, in some of the enclosures I had a shallow layer of water on the bottom. I rear too many mantids at a time to get fancy with substrate. Also I have given them plenty of room, and the entire top of the enclosures are mesh. I stay away from putting too many perches in an enclosure because I have had many a mantis decide to molt low on a perch too close to the bottom, and get all bent and deformed or not make it out of the molt (because they run out of room). My best guess is that it may be temperature related. My ghost mantids have been molting to adults around this same time and they are kept at 40-50% humidity, and I have had no problems with them? I appreciate the advice. [/QUOTE]
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