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Immature and female Porcellio expansus witches potion (adult males have gigantic uropods).

If you do it right they don't eat the male. You give them space in a large screen cage and watch closely to separate if attack (you can be too late with one bite though). You can try night time intro but not sure how well that works.

Most people use bits of screen or dried plant material. Live plants would be difficult.

Hope today is going great for everyone!

Welcome! Ghosts are a great choice. I'd suggest starting with a few older nymphs, the hatchlings might be a little tough the first time around.

Do you spend much time outside? Often in the fall the adults come to lights. Finding nymphs among the vegetation is much less common.

Sometimes if you save them from the cold they live a few months and other times they die shortly after even if you get them before the first hard frosts.

It might take a few molts.

The only known hybrid and quite variable

No, no interest in them.

Here's a really nice, big species.

Hate to be a party pooper but I think you need an export permit from USFWS to export more than six specimens (for dried arthropod specimens anyway).

4th instar sexed pair $250 plus shipping, different parents, 2023 offspring, 2000 stock.

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They're not parasitic, the parsitic ones attach at the joints and usually look like odd polyps when immature. They look really neat, but I'm a fan of commensal mites. Usually mantids are too dry to host mites and I've never seen them.

She would not eat in that state, hopefully she can molt without getting stuck.

European mantids are usually easier, mostly because they are shorter and aren't so prone to molting problems. Carolina and California spp. Stagmomantis are even easier. There's a section in here if you have...

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Chinese mantids are more difficult to rear than most of the common pet species and finicky on molting surfaces.