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Hello lovely people,  as some of you know, I am new to mantids and getting hooked 😀 So I have my gastrica L? and a spiny flower L5.  I'm learning by the minute and fascinated by these creatures. Although I cant go crazy on numbers due to my circumstances, I think I could still manage 1 or even...

Welcome 😀 I am very new to the hobby, have 2 mantises now and loving it. Youll enjoy this forum, great people here 👍

Yep, she did take her food the next day. I am yet to purchase bigger flies so temporarily I gave her mealworms and she stuffed herself 😁

Hi everyone, thank you again for your replies, I appreciate your advice. Im currently putting a piece of cardboard between my L5 Spiny flower and a much bigger gastrica as Im still not sure how I feel about them. It didnt help that I was out of suitable size food and the gastrica was hungry for...

Ha ha My gastrica is very ravenous usually too.... i might try gently with a big fruit fly and see how it goes...

Btw how long after the molt would a gastrica want to eat? 🍧🍦🍩🍰🍪🍳🍔🍟🍝🍕🍖🍗🍤😂😂😂😂

....when I woke up next morning, her exuvia was also moved down from the place is was attached to start with.... or it just fell down by itself....?

Ok, well ive learnt something new - well Im a newbie!!!  She looked to me to be staying there in that last bit for so long, thats wha worried me, now I know its the SCLEROTIZING bit!!! 😨 ok!! Yep I did worry about the spraying and photographing to panic her! So did my best to go gently...

OMG Yes!!!! 😁😁😁 When I finished writing this post, I went back to check on her and shes OUT!!! Oh what a relief! Mustve been that misting hopefully..... I can go to sleep and dream of a new life 🌱

Hi guys, can you help? I came home from work and found my gastrica in the middle of a molt. In fact, most of her is out successfully but she seems stuck just by the very tip of her abdomen in the old molt. I dont know how long shes been like this....  As you can see from the droplets on the...

Ok guys, thanks for that. I can sleep peacefully now 😊

Hi, so I am very much a newbie, only recently introduced myself here with my new gastrica. Shes doing very well, had 1 molt since with me.  I mustve caught the bug because Im quite obscessed with her and I just purchased my 2nd mantis, this time a spiny flower. 4th instar. Oh what a little...

Thanks! She is still soft and not eating, ill try to take a pic when I can.....

Awww weve had a 1st molt from  this mantis since I bought her 2,5 weeks ago. Yep, my 1st mantis molt EVER!  although I am used to snakes shedding... She molted just before I bought her too. Any idea what instar she could be? As I said, its sp. gastrica and she was about 1 inch long (head&amp...

Hi Rick ☺ Really a great forum, and so much to learn..... 👍

Ah LOL ...if I told my friends that people are considering mantises cute.....theyd never understand 😂  I totally agree, shes one little Missy 🎀

Look at this goofy creature guys.... She hanging upside down, holding some coco coir in her front legs, shes even munching on that...  mustve been a fruit fly in there somewhere.... I do find her fascinating 😀 

Hi, sorry had to dig out some old photos of my condas... Axanthic yellow anacondas, about 10ft each. They were a handful but what a beauty to have them in my life for a few years ☺ 

Hi Amanda from the previous last newbie on this forum 😊 

I was lucky to become a guardian (well, they owned me) of 2 "axanthic" (morph) of yellow anacondas...... long story..... a fab experience...... (sorry gotta dash off to work so I can feed the hungry one lol...will be back later)