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I think I can help with the ooth question, I believe that ghost mantis ooth don't hatch to many nymphs. And they are communal so if you are worrying about having individual enclosures it should be fine. You can have them in the same enclosure as long as they have some room

So my chinese mantis is acting a bit weird. She is like bending her abdomen weird. It's about time for her molt but still weird. Shes bending in backward in almost a u type shape 

@Mystymantis this is exactly what is happening. So the egg isn't super early but a little. I had the egg hanging on the top and they were getting stuck so I changed the angle, bot sure if it will help though. Some have sadly died but I have like 20-30 that should be fine. More are still hatching...

so its been like 7 hours since i noticed three mantids that have hatched out of a ooth and i came home (about 7 hours later) and there is only like 10 now and a few of them are stuck on the egg. Should i do anything? Two of them have there legs stuck and maybe i could help? but i don't want to...

Yes but it keeps saying error @crabbypatty

So I have had a ooth incubation for like 2 months and I thought it was dead...This morning I noticed some hatching! I have no idea what species because they are sooooooo tiny like way smaller than Chinese nymphs. I found the egg outside and thought why not try to hatch it. They are so small that...

It could work with dirt or without 

What praying mantids do you recommend for an intermediate?

Moss would work! Would you be getting it from a pet store? Because if you grt moss outside it could get your mantis sick and possibly kill it. But moss from pet stores is great for substrate! The only problem I have is that fruitflies tend to go throughout the moss like all the time instead of...

Here is my ghost mantis! The forum is letting me post pictures again (always popped up with errors when trying to post a picture) so here she/he is. I believe my ghost mantis is female but not sure. Sorry for the pictures being so blurry, I don't have a nice camera lol

So I just got a ghost mantis today!! I have a quick question though, the mantis is super small and have he/she in a 20 oz cup I think. Should I have a mesh lid or cloth?

So I have a exo Terra (which is very ventilated) it's a 8x8x12. I have a humidity gauge inside and I don't know whether to trust it because it says that it is about 80-90% humid when I spray only once inside. It stays like that all day basically unless I put a lamp over the terrarium. 

My house is always around 68-70 degrees f. I am getting two ghost mantids and I really want to up the heat. What would you recommend for a heat source?

I saw a topic about eye rub and I'm wondering what that is so I am aware of it. I'm scared that my mantis might have it becuase one of its eyes is kinda black-ish

What is eye rub?

@crabbypatty @hibiscusmile They are chinese mantids

So I have 4 mantids 3 are l5 and 1 is l6 I believe. Should I get house flys or blue bottle? They could be l4 and l5 I'm not 100%sure