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    Mantis noob here...baby feeding questions.

    They're still really little. I can't imagine them eating a housefly yet.
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    Mantis noob here...baby feeding questions.

    Hey all, I just had one of my Chinese mantis ooths hatch outside about two weeks back. I grabbed 5 little babies and moved them indoors. I placed one each into a little tiny Rubbermaid container (square-ish - dixie cup size); drilled holes in the sides and top lid; took some really thin...
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    What are you gut-loading your feeder insects with?

    Interesting. Thanks!
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    What are you gut-loading your feeder insects with?

    So I am curious, as a leopard gecko owner, I feed my pet gecko a variety of bugs – crickets, dubia roaches, giant mealworms, wax worms, horn worms, and phoenix worms. One of the things that is very crucial to the health of my gecko is what I feed his bugs. We call it "gut-loading". I gut-load my...
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    Where do you buy your mantids?

    Just curious. I'm a noob. I had tow mantids at the end of summer that I brought indoors. They both died before Christmas. I would love to have another mantid, but don't know where to buy from. Also, what all will I need as a beginner?
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    When to Transition to a larger Enclosure?

    He wasn't fed insects that were fed carrots was he? I read carrot-loaded insects will kill mantids and cause them to vomit beforehand..
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    When to Transition to a larger Enclosure?

    I caught a full grown Carolina female at the end of the summer and kept her in a smaller version of one of these with just a stick in it for her to climb to the lid. I'm a noob and don't know much right now, but I can tell you she could cling to the inside top (without mesh) and even laid 3...
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    Noob....need advice!

    Hey all, At the end of the warm season this year, I grabbed two adult female mantids from my outdoor patio garden and brought them inside. Both of these mantids had been living in two different plants since mid-summer. Anyway, one of them was a Carolina and the other was a Chinese. I kept the...
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