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Well, she is still alive and drinking lots of water. I got her to eat a BB two days ago and she ate about half of it and dropped the rest--something I've NEVER seen her do. There's been two flies just hanging out with her that she doesn't seem to care about at all. Previously, she has been...

I'm pretty sure Yen is hands-down the most reviewed guy here, so I'm not sure how much weight this review is really going to have, but it was a great transaction. Mantises shipped last Wednesday, arrived on Saturday and they were all happy and healthy. Super fair prices.

Just wanted to update for my own reference since I document hardly anything so I rely on my posts here to gauge elapsed time... Kinda sad news, but my oldest ghost, Sha-Dynasty, looks to be having the 'black puke' issue (for lack of a better term). I even witnessed her when it happened. She was...

The new shipment of Idolos arrived today! Here are two of the four.

Welcome!

Me too. It's since molted again, but I'm on eggshells whenever they get close to molting...pretty sure it has its adult molt coming up next...fingers crossed

Man thats tough. I noticed one of my idolos at the bottom of its cage hanging by one leg--thought it was a goner. It was super slow and sluggish, but I managed to coax it back to the top. Within 30 minutes it molted. Can only imagine what it would have done if I had not intervened...

I had a loss the second day I had them at i2, but the two I'm left with have been pretty easy so far and I think are sub adults now. My only gripe with them is that they are spastic and literally cower at their own shadow. They also seem super delicate. Upon further inspection, I think they may...

My second idolo was taking (I believe) her time molting, but finally did it about a week ago, almost a month after my other one.

Welcome! I'm only speaking for myself, but raising Mantises, even exotic species, has been much easier than I anticipated.

My goals are to get the eff outside more! In my neck of the woods there has been literally 7x the amount of snow than usual, making me go shack happy. My jeep was out of commission the one weekend I planned on taking the camper out, but that's all fixed now. I am close by to some great fossil...

I somehow lucked out and got two green females. Hopefully you get many more greenies!

It's been a while since I have updated on the gang, and I was running into upload space issues and from here on out these will all be lower resolution, but without further ado, here are some recent pics of my ghosts! Doc Toboggan: Ongo Gablogian: Pecan Sandy:

That is very interesting.  I have no advice but thank you for sharing this!

I only use flies and moths but it never hurts to try I guess!

Leave it to us yanks to come up with different labels for the same things

I love this forum, and believe that forums are still the best way to interact with others who enjoy the same hobby as you do. My view is that places like reddit and facebook offer a limited interface with your peers--not only is it more difficult to browse information others have submitted, but...

Hey everyone. I can't find a solid answer (I tried searching, but there is so much information on this site to dig through) as to why there seems to be a variance between using i or L to designate the mantises instar. I get the i for instar, but where does L come in? I've basically been using a...

Welcome to the forum!

I'm still a noob and have no experience with this species, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've found doing anything to slightly disturb them gets them 'moving around'. For example, I paired my ghosts again two days ago and he landed on her backwards. There was a table lamp on top of the...