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Good luck :) what species are you looking at?

Now that mantisplace.com has discontinued their net cubes for sale, I was wondering if anyone has a 14x14x14 net cube or something close to it that will house my heterochaeta sp. when he/she is an adult. Please PM me if you know where I could get one or if you have one yourself.

I recommend ghosts, that's what I started with. They're communal (can live together with no cannibalism), look beautiful, and are relatively easy to take care of. I'm actually hoping for a ghost ootheca pretty soon if you decide you want one :)

So sad :( this has happened to two of my P. wahlbergii nymphs over the last month, after not molting after three months... I've bumped up the heat hoping it will help them but nothing yet.

Thanks everyone :) sounds like I should be thankful she lived so long, I thought it was rather average but I'm happy either way :)

Noticed that she began to have wet poops and some vomit on the side of her net cage, I think she may have overeaten or eaten something bad. She lived a long healthy life of around 11 months, and I raised her from an L2. After initially buying four nymphs, losing one to cannibalism, and the...

Just looking for one or two, preferably big enough to be eating hydei (no good access to melanogasters here). They will be going to a good home and will be rooming with some spiny flower mantids and ghosts :)

Here he/she is any help?

I do only have three. I am still unsure on the gender, I will be posting pictures in this thread after I get home from work tonight. I have kept the three of them successfully in this cube since they were L5 with no issues whatsoever, only separating the separate instars when molts occured.

I'm pretty sure both the L7 and adult are female, and I have one L6 male straggler. The container houses the females, its a 15" net cube and I always make sure enough crickets are there for them. This was very unexpected!

hello! My first ghost mantis has finally molted into an adult, but I have a question. I never keep instars together, but since the size increase from subadult to adult wasn't huge, I am wondering if keeping them together is okay? I don't want any cannibalism.

Your budwing is beautiful! Wow!

Thanks! She is doing quite well and eating alot. I have them in a net cube so they are fine with climbing. She has been on the side for a while so I might attempt to move her soon.

Update for those curious-- He is happily eating a cricket just minutes after placing some in their habitat :) thank you all for your reassurance, i'll be sure to post if he recovers his leg at L7 or adult!

I just woke up to a beautiful sight--he was hanging from the top of his habitat with no problem :) I think he will pull through! I'm just worried that there are not enough molts left

Hey everyone Today my final ghost molted to l6, but he is missing a leg.. It is just a stump. He crawls around fine and seems okay, but looks like he's having some trouble :( here is a picture http://imgur.com/vIEZmSH He seems to have trouble hanging, I am so worried. Please help :(

You're in McHenry??? I'm in Gurnee, actually :)

Hello MantidForum!!! I am Jack from Chicago. I am 17, and I got into mantids first in 3rd grade, when we saved one from outdoors, named it Yoshi, and kept it for about six months, where it lived a happy life :) recently, I purchased some ghost nymphs from someone on reddit.com. They are now...