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Hey, awesome mantids. I just purchaed a D. lobata and a Sphodromantis sp. (Mine might be a 'blue flash' from Tanzania, and yours looks like a lineola I had)! They are both L3 nymphs at this point though. Yours look awesome.

That's a neat trick with the salt. Hopefully Ill never have to use it though--lol!

I know it's good advise but I think I really just want them to breed and am willing to take the risk. (The first adult pair to molt already mated, I'm pretty sure, and the female is looking distended too!) I don't have the time to put a male in a females cage or vice versa and watch them for...

If it didn't hatch by now, sure. But someone revived a 3 mo. old thread about a ghost ooth. Wondering if it hatched or not from the OP....

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The trick to that is put a spoonful (i.e. one day of feedings worth) of blue bottles into your hatching container every other day. Then eventually they will hatch regularly. In my experience BBFs take at least a week to hatch from larva state anyway; with pupas you can't tell because you can't...

I have two breeding pairs now and one pair already bred.  When they mated the female did not at all get aggressive with the male. A ghost breeder told me I can leave them all together (with some risk of course). They have always seemed very docile to each other. Batting at one another is the...

So, 3 months later, is the ooth hatching or nearly ready to hatch you think? I'm not sure how long ghost ooths take....

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So I have a crazy mantis story for you guys. I saved a drowned mantis. Not saved it from drowning, but actually brought it back from drowning! Let me explain. My thin-winged (T. angustipennis) subadult Toby was out on my curtain, and after a while I couldn't find him, so I started looking. He...

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Just an FYI the humidity for a molt isnt just the humidity at the time of the molt, but the humidity levels the days leading up to the molt (Keeping the Praying Mantis; Orin). So spraying right as he/she is molting won't really do anything. Have the humidity up a bit when you think its due for a...

Yeah that's what I was describing with the wing's. You can tell they are starting to seperate from her body. I'm not sure how long the subadult to adult wait is for orchids, but I know some mantids, like ghosts for instance, can take the better part of 2 months. I wouldn't worry, a mismolt is...

I've always been under the impression that you should keep it in the fridge, not the freezer. I keep mine in a small plastic container with 2 pinholes and a drop or two of water every week. (Credit to Orin for that)

Yeah, if she has small wings, very small and slightly separated from her body (thorax) thats a sign that it will be her final (adult) molt. These take longer....

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Mostly just curious, I think I said already that I have two different Rhombodera species.... They like a decent amount of humidity, like 70% is my target, but not above 80% or below 50%. 

Yep. Slow and steady! Good topic though, I never really thought about it like that. If females could fly they'd spread around a lot more. Too bad, lol... And I've seen S. lineola and T. sinensis females fly a good distance after laying an ooth and being pretty skinny, i.e. light.

Looks like a fine enclosure. If the top is metal mesh, hot glue tulle fabric or plastic window screen to the top, this was the mantis can climb on something safe and graspable. (They can lose a tarsus on the metal.) Also the giant asian shield mantis is in the genus Rhombodera. Do you know the...

I've read that if you are just buying/selling domestically then you are okay, but if there is an importing/exporting going on (particularly the importing) then you need a permit. I'm not positive this is correct but it seems legitimate.