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Yeah I cannot be sure, I'm more certain he has to be A. monstrous if that's what he was sold as, but you never know I guess :P If it helps I took these two photos today. He's a 5th instar and he is about 9cm from head to tail (not including his legs).

I cannot be 100% sure, but he was sold to me as Archimantis monstrous

Hi guys, so I received my two newest additions to my insect family (that is growing fast!) and they are a Phyllium monteithi (Leaf insect) and a Archimantis monstrous (Monster Mantis) and OMG I'm so excited (I know this is a Mantid forum, but I'm so excited about the leaf insect too, so if it's...

Here is my solution, a moat and 'cricket island' in the tub :P used two rocks to hold it down better in the water, they seem to enjoy them and the upside down plastic pot.

Hahahaha noooo! That's one of my nightmares :P drinking water to find ants in the water! I have a tad of a fear of ants... even teeny weeny little ones!

Yay! Hopefully that keeps the buggers out then :) awesome! I remember being in Phuket in july and I brought a packet of mentor just to find tiny little ants in them! Blah! I think because it's coming up to summer here now they seem to be coming out more :( not cool!

Thanks guys! We used ant rid on the outside of the windows and ant powder on the insides, hopefully that keeps them out for now. I cleaned the tub I had them in and put some rocks in it and used a kitty litter tray filled with some water as a moat, got new crickets too. I also moved them to the...

So I've had the common little black ants raid my house the last few days, they started off raiding the kitchen sink, and now I've discovered they have killed all my crickets! They were in a 5L plastic container that had some small holes drilled into the top sides and a big hole cut into the lid...

So I have a Monster Mantis coming next week (Archimantis Monstosa) so I thought I would prepare his enclosure in advance, and since I had bought another of the square canisters and took more time and care to drill holes I thought I'd use the old one (Not as aesthetically pleasing... buuut oh...

Glad you like it :) I put a lot of effort into making it! Hopefully it does as they don't have any containers like this that are bigger :P I really like them!

Magnus's enclosure There is a small plastic container under the highest part of the coco peat with water in it holding one of the plants to keep it alive longer :) A pebble in the corner, and where Magnus is hanging from there is some netted type fabric attached to the roof for easy gripping...

Okay, so I feed Magnus on crickets so far, I have offered small mealworms but he doesn't seem very keen, even when I cut one in half for him. We don't have fruit flies where I am and I was contemplating catching some blow flies or something but I don't see blow flies or other flies here being...

Yeah that's a good idea

That's a good idea!

Horrah! I left another small cricket in his enclosure this afternoon and came back just now and there's only a pair of legs remaining... :)