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I used to have a lot more, especially Asian ratsnakes and small pythons. But I downsized a lot when my children were born. I'm now at the point of slowly rebuilding a collection again.

Glad to see I'm not alone. There isn't a decent forum over here atm for herp stuff, so thought I'd share some of it here. The state of the hobby has gone in some funny directions and the only forum in the uk reflects that.

Those orchids are lovely, especially that super pink male.

Thank you. The female is alive and seems okay, will have to see if she copes with her wonkiness or not. The last acanthops I'm pretty sure is a female so just hoping it'll moult safely and soon. I think my epaphrodita female is gearing up to moult as I offered her a bsf earlier but she didn't...

I don't just keep mantids, I've been keeping various "exotics" for over 30 years. Reptiles and amphibians mostly. I took a couple of pics of a few of my current collection. First my adult male everglades ratsnake and one his young from this year, 14 days old One of a young pair of ladder...

A couple of the collection got their wings. First the male Epaphrodita from above  Secondly my male Acanthops erosula, a female also moulted to adult on the same night, unfortunately she must've fallen and mismoulted.  Still alive but a bit curved and has to be handfed otherwise healthy...

I have a group of 4 galinthias amoena living communally. They reached adulthood more or less same time, just my luck but I ended up with 3 males and one female. She's been mated a few times now, caught them more than once in the last two weeks. They don't normally bother each other but the...

Those have grown since then, subadults now so when they get their wings I'll take some more.

Here's hoping I can get some ooths from these.  I have 3 males but only the one female so fingers crossed.  They can only be one or two moults from adult now. Epaphrodita musarum, I find they have a lot of character and are quite active for a dead leaf mimic. Opposite to my Acanthops which do...

I grabbed a couple of quick pics today, both these species are brilliant in my opinion. First my lone female creobroter gemmatus. Pseudoxyops perpulchra, I have a few of these and they have loads of character.  They chase prey all over the cage and are willing to tackle prey that looks too...

Bought ones, readily available here and pretty inexpensive. I only have a small amount just for my most voracious females as they can be dangerous to the mantids if they aren't up to the task. I mostly feed with a mixture of flies and crickets. 

My largest female sphrodomantis (subadult) is an eating machine right now. Gave her two mid sized locusts the other day. Whilst eating one she saw the other, grabbed it without letting go of the first. She killed both and was holding one in each arm munching from each in turn and looking very...

Females seem to become even more voracious and hungry as they get older. Especially adults, obviously thought your finger was a suitable snack.

They are a beetle, (not 100% sure on species) had some in a recent tub of feeders myself. Gave a couple of adult beetles to my bigger mantids and they ate the lot. Was noisy though, could hear them crunching the elytra. But I would'nt have risked the larvae, not sure if the hairs are simply an...

In the uk. I have an adult male ephestiasula boxer that I'd like to pair up. Originated from bugzuk, if anyone has a spare adult or subadult female I'd be interested in buying her.

Think you'd need a lot of hydei to keep them well fed once they put on any size. I've mainly used appropriate sized crickets and flies when I can. Houseflies seem ideal. Had a nest of ants in the garden that released all the new queens and drones yesterday, so I grabbed about 30 or so and...

Easy species and fun to keep, they are small but they'll happily tackle prey that looks too big for them. Mine have eaten any flies I care to throw at them and crickets up to l3 size. Mine have been kept in quite minimal containers, 1.5lt tubs with some twigs for climbing and moulting at room temp. 

I gave them a couple of crickets, but they didn't much like the jumping. So hindlegs had to be removed. After that no problem. The way they hold and eat them reminds me of a corn cob, munch munch munch from side to side.

Well I ordered some new mantids recently and I received 3 of these however I had actually ordered 3 of these It was a simple mistake at their end and very generously they said I could keep the eremiaphila anyway and they sent out the epaphrodita musarum aswell. They came from bugzuk and I...

Subadult? Think I can see wingbuds. Very nice, glad you finally got them.