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No, it's okay. Part of it is that I'm at my moms most of the time, and she wouldn't want them (she thinks i have enough with four rats and a pigeon), and my dad is too busy to care for more animals (he's already got his two dogs, two rats, my brothers snake, and my brother haha). I might get...

All of the mantids are dead... Thanks for everyone's help with care, but we aren't getting anymore mantids.

Well, turns out 3/4 died. Either from molting weirdly (none molted on top?), or starving. Petco didn't have any more live flies, so pop was trying to feed them dead flies and ladybugs. Grr, i told him to get a culture online... :(

My dad said a couple of them have just molted!

I'll tell my dad to get the fine mesh (i suggested this before but we never got around to going to the fabric store). My dad took a couple great pics of Carl, hes about a cm long. Pretty awesome face pic :)

Ok, we will get new enclosures when they get a few molts bigger. The room they are in is usually dark, so i figures the light would be good. I'll go add paper towels now.

I can't see the pic so ill post it on photobucket and up here-

Here is the setup (i did put a strip of paper towel in each for them to climb on after the pic)-

Ok, we'll open them to mist.

We are just putting in as many flies as they will eat, plenty in there for them. Do we hanve to mist the inside? We have been misting the paper towel on top. Thanks for clarifing molt stuff.

I like it :) I've never had the CN, but i use litter... So the martin's are a great choice for me!

Hehe, my ratties have their own room down the hall, i usually don't hear them much! :D

We got them today! Little buggers, the guy said they hatched on the 11th. So they are almost a week old, and he said they had one moult already. That makes them L1 right? We only got 4. We got 4 square tupperware things, I think they are around 32 oz... We put window screen on the top after...

I dunno, with the babies... He uses some pretty powerful stuff. Either way, I don't think the mantids would appreciate the flash :lol:

I wanted to ask, at what age (generally) do they start outgrowing the FFs? How aften do they moult?

We decided to get either cups, like said, or some type of tupperware and cut a hole in the top to cover in window mesh. When they grow up, we have a twenty gallon that can be sectioned off (somehow...) for them to live in. And we can always go out and buy other stuff!

Oop, forgot about Frank's appearence. Here he is- He's a bald headed roller :) He doesn't like people but he has an adorable coo. He's crippled (from birth or shortly after) so one of his legs sticks out weird.

Here are all my ratties currently! BlackBerry Curious Rattus (Agouti Variberk)- 2 and 4 months. She has a couple tumors, so she is my eldery sicky rat :( She's my cuddly girl. Maple Waffles Rattus (Agouti Undermarked Berk)-About a year old. A really cool girl who i can leave to wander the...

Awww, great ratties :) Nice CN too. I have the hanging bird toy for my pigewon, he loves it. My rats don't care for jingly things though... Are you using revolution for mites? Did you quarantine the new gal?

Total newbie on raising feeder insects, and even having mantids. So hopefully you guys can help me :) I'm planning on ordering cultures from mantisplace. How many cultures should we get? We are getting 6 baby mantids, I'll find out the age tomorrow when we get them. We'll buy some FFs from...