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I'd rather he eat fatty worms than nothing. He's better eating SOMETHING !!

every 2 days maybe? He really does not entertain cricks at all!! :(

Just give him one earlier - he munched it goooood. His body peacock "spots" are starting to come through. He's a grreat breed IMHO! :D What's the advice on feeding him wax worms? one every other day? also I put them in his tank and the wax worm keept burying itself under the substrate - so...

wax worms sorry! :) He's eating it right now!! :D :D :D

got him some meal worms - he's MUNCHING the meal worm now! OH YEAH :lol: :lol:

Hmm he's not eating spiders either. No cricks left. He ate a crick on Thursday need to feed him again. I might get some flies. He seemed to love the flies... Anywhere UK based to order small quantites of flies? don't want 100 for one mantid :)

OK I caught a nice big juicy bluebottle........ Put the bluebottle in the tank............ MANTIS STRIKES. BLUEBOTTLE DOWN...... YES!

He didn't really entertain the spider. He poked at it once or twice but he'd no interest in eating so the spider got released. I might hand feed him another "cut up" cricket tomorrow... thoughts?

OK tomorrow it is! thanks.

So DON'T feed him the spider yet ?

He ate half of the crick earlier - should I feed him the spider NOW or wait till tomorrrow?

Well... He molted! which was a surprise.......... So he chilled out for sometime then still wouldn't eat. I cut a crick up and hand fed him with chopsticks. He took it off me and ate !!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!! finally... I've trapped a spider to try and change his diet a little from cricks but...

Well guys just hand fed him a crick - he didn't entertain it at all. He snipped at it for literally 1 second then got scared off again... He was throwing his front arms up and throwing them about the place then running away :( Anything else I can do?

He opens and closes them fine. He does not appear to be injured in any shape or form... He's still not eaten though. I fed him again today with some honey water... He was eating that like crazy. I've tried him with another cricket but no luck. I just tried to hand feed him a spider also and he...

OK so he still didn't eat. I have fed him using a chopstick and give him some honey water. He seemed to take some and seemed a bit more lively. I will try another crick soon in his tank. :(

NO LUCK :(

It certainly has no wings... yet... I've been spraying his tank twice a day normally. I have him on a heatmat sometimes aswell due to it being a bit cooler in the UK these months. He seems to react well when I let him out and walk about and things... I'll try a crick now... if he hasnt' eaten...

Hey - I think it's an adult. It's fairly big... the guy in the store told me ti probably only has a few molts left. It's got ZERO sign of wings though. Not even little budwings or anything so... I guess it's an adult. Excuse me for being a total newbie over all this :( I'm trying to learn but...

OK so spoke to the shop today - crickets all they have atm... so crickets it is for now. he told me if I put a cricket in and my mantid hasn't eaten him within 15mins I should take the cricket out again (squish it he said...) so tonight I took the cricket out and put in some proper sticks and...

Hmm... might be best to change it's diet up then. I'll try the shop tomorrow guys. thanks alot.