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I've fed tadpoles boiled fresh spinach leaves, frozen bloodworms, frozen daphnia, algae wafers, goldfish flakes, and frog & tadpole bites. Also aquatic plant brought from pet store I think called hornwort? The metamorphosing tadpoles climbed on the plant as they got front legs, I had...

Hopefully extra months to live :)

Dubia roaches sometimes get high amount of Orange or yellow color, a katydid species comes on pink yellow and orange mutants, and feeder crickets sometimes get white or red eyes. http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?239643-White-eyed-feeder-crickets...

You could of caught a female Luna and mated him then let the female go.

Hissing cockroaches can live to 5 years old!

Why aren't people breeding the different color morphs together to create a colorful subspecies and let some go, imagine finding a few of these each year instead of rarely if ever finding them. The oblong winged katydid live in many states.

I would say at least a month, but could be shorter. Make sure there are paper towels or something they can climb up to expand their wings. I used to gently mist with water every other day to endure easy hatching for the moth.

Waxworms pupate very easily and you can buy artificial diet to breed them.

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Island Reptiles in New York gets some exotic mantids check their facebook page I know the owner as I bred hissers for him. https://m.facebook.com/islandreptiles?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fislandreptiles

I got my mantis to eat dead prey like those Canned crickets when live prey isn't available. I put the mantis on a large paper plate, take a dead insect and gently push it from the abdomen with a toothpick Very slowly, towards the mantis. She grabs it and eats it out of her cage, only downfall...

I only got a scorpion. The pink orchid mantis would look pretty on a girl with pink petals falling behind.

Besides bent necks from a bad hatch I've never seen any odd nymphs. I've heard stories of gynandromorph mantids, ones showing half male half female parts equally split down the middle. Then theres odd colored individuals. Also heard of post ultimate molt, where an adult sheds again but dies due...

Mantids are closely related to cockroaches right? I keep hissing cockroaches as pets, and normally males live shorter live due to stress and fighting, but I've had males outlive females many times. As long as your guy eats he could live fairly long, been told 6-8 months as an adult is a long...

All I ever find are brown individuals with a green stripe on the wings, do they come in all brown and all green? Found this on the Internet, it appears pink!

A wild mantis I saved from dying in the cold laid an ootheca on cage cover even though I provided sticks I was going to tie the stick to a shrub outside. This ootheca I want to hatch outside in spring, how can I prop the cage cover outside?

Last I saw her she was slowing down, and when she was captive before she wouldn't hunt live prey so I would have to hand feed which is harder than it sounds. She left her spot and I haven't seen her so either she died or found a better place.

I saw her today still quite plump! We had frost and even snow flurries few days ago and at night it was 34F! But during the day we still get bugs so apparently she is catching food. I wish she would lay another ootheca before the real cold comes. She is the oldest wild mantis I've ever seen!

After two days I found her she is just fine :)

I hope she survived the night I didn't see her yesterday and last night we had a freak cold snap 38F if she made it she should be ok next week or so won't be too cold.