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hmmm...really sucks Thanks for the help guys, I thnk this lay now has a date with the freezer, as she is now on her back again kicking her legs feebely. :cry:

oh..that's not good :shock: what kind of things could have caused this? I clean her tank regular, to remove any carcasses, or uneaten food. COuld it be casued by any of the insects I feed her?

This morning when i got up, I noticed my mantid was going off on one. Her normal place is attached to the roof of the enclosure, but today she was trying to walk around...very unsucessfully. She couldn't balance, kept falling over, and if she flipped over, she couldn't get back on her feet...

Thanks for the replies guys :D the mantis moulted on Thursday, and i know eough to leave well alone just after moulting, I generally do not spray for 24 hrs afterwards either, and leave her enclosure alone in case I knock her off. The abdomen is very thick in width. I tried to coax her...

My African Manid has just moulted into an adult, and I have yet to hold her (I believe it's a she..the wings come right over the abdomen and has 7 segments??) anyway, what is the best way to pick her up and hold her? Are they prone to biting and attacking you when you try to? The last time she...

cheers Rick :D I'd never noticed it before, it was a little strange to see

Today i noticed the abdomen on my mantis was pulsating, as though he was breathing. What does this mean? I noticed a similar thing on one of the crickets I put in his enclosure, and that moulted, so could I take this as an indication of my manyid preparing to moult?

under your image, you will see three lines of text, one of which starts copy everything in that line including the then paste it in the editor screen here...voila! :) edit: I replied to this before snipes images had loaded, so sorry for the double information :D

As i write this, he is just finishing off a sizable cricket, so I am happy he is eating well (just want to see him stalk and catch them now :) ) Thanks for the info guys, especially about the possibility of them attack my mantis when he moults. I'll get them removed later. i put so many in...

I have put a few crickets in with my mantis, to try and tempt him to eat, but I have yet to see him eat, though he did make a few fake attacks when I put the in. This morning, I noticed three of the crickets were dead, two had holes in their abdomens and one was 'sucked dry', but the mantis did...

I named mine Sid, because the shape of his head reminds me of Sid the sloth from Ice Age :D

well, I did ask for an african species, but like so many petshops they never give the proper latin/scientific name for them, so in truth I don't exactly know, but from the pictures i've seen and from what I could read, it would appear to be a giant african mantis And yes, the size increase is...

I misted my tank this morning..as I do most morning, and then I thought I'd have a look at the little guy since he doesn't move alot. As I looked in his tank I noticed he had moulted :) and he is a nice pale green colour. I hadn't expected him to moult so soon, so this came as a surprise...

Hi rick, thanks.

well, Sid (the mantis) is not the only new addition to the family. My partner Mel, made me the proud father of a beautiful baby girl at 5:23 this morning. Weiging in at a nice 7lb 6oz, there are plenty of sleepless nights ahead...and someone else to share my new hobby with :D

@Rick I tried a search before I asked, but it wouldn't bring anything up that I could use (or at all in some cases) whether thats me not using the search feature correctly or what, I don't know, but it's the first thing I usually check :) @ Jay she pretty used to my weird obsessions now...

depends on how badly you want to breed them :lol:

*sighs* oh for a fish house!..that or a single life :twisted:

yeah, unfortunatly admin verification can put new members off a little as they compare your 'tough measures' to the gestapo, and prefere an easier sign up..but usually they are the same kind of people who hate all the spam that we also hate...you can't really win, only make a trade off....sucks...

cool :D he looks fairly large at the moment (compared to the rest of him, it's 2 to 3 times more girth then his upper body) so I'll see, but I can deffinatly see this becoming a bit more of an obsession then a curiosity..but the other half has said i have to reduce my fish collection to 1 if...