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Also, thank you CosbyArt for the tips on getting fruit fly feeders! I'll definitely check that site out!

Woah @CosbyArt I didn't see this until just now! You went all out that's awesome! :D  Unfortunately I can't spend too much money on these little critters as I have my storm-tracking hobby as well that costs a good deal of money already.. So I go simple and cheap and use a spray bottle and keep...

Well bad news everyone... My very last nymph I had had to be left to rest :(  He molted fine into L7.. Perfect wing buds.. He did have a difficult time at first.. wouldn't eat for days.. I mean it took Milo 3 to 4 days before he was remotely interested in any feeders.. I tried meal worms, a...

@CosbyArt Here's Milo, Mantis 0! All the other ones to let everyone else know have died from bad molts and one overly curious mantis hopping onto my space heater and literally frying its back legs, I eventually put him out of his misery :(  Milo has been introduced to nourished crickets and...

@CosbyArt Congrats on the hatch! I just recently purchased an ooth online from a trusted site and should arrive at my house in the next day or two. I think it's winterized too! I'm definitely going to take another try at this and this time, I'm going to leave them together until they're all...

Cagn at L3 :)  He's getting so healthy! I say he because I actually managed to clearly count his abdomen layers underneath and I counted 7! I'm going to wait until he, or it I should say it still, is L4 to be absolutely sure. It's starting to twitch again while staying still so I think he or...

Thank you Serle! Update on the hatch so far, I am now down to 4 tenoderas left.. I lost 3 due to them getting stuck in their skins while molting. The rest of them made it no problem and with no deformities. I figured out why I lost the 3 too.. I noticed their cages were drier than the others who...

@CosbyArt Yeah my room can get pretty toasty with my desktop sometimes.. I can see heat enhancing the hatch time a bit. Ones that have hatched while I was a kid always took two months or longer.. This one I had and your hatched pretty darn quick which is amazing. Since yours only had 7 hatch, I...

Hey @CosbyArt! Wow, congrats on the hatch! :D  That is astonishing it hatched so quicky! Come to think about it, my female back in late September laid hers right on the 2nd of October and it hatched on November 7th.. The ooth was real rough looking too, but it was a decent size.. It's just the...

Congratulations @CosbyArt! That's awesome you're able to hold a female chinese this late in the season and have it lay it's sack! All of my chinese mantids I've ever kept never would make it past late October for some reason. I.E. the female I had in September went downhill fast after she laid...

@LAME @CosbyArt Thank you both so much for your inputs and suggestions! I've thought about snagging a large aquarium and dividing it up with mesh walls/superglue. I've found some decent ones at Petsmart for around $60 that could be divided up into several spacious sections! I'm moving out...

So I finally got some bigger containers for the mantis family! I felt like it's better now than later to get them into bigger containers with some modifications that'll give them a better spot to molt on. The one that fell was on the lid, and because I was in a rush to save them when they were...

@CosbyArt Ohh yes they are fast little hoppers.. Ever since they've molted, they seem much more active! I've already had one hop right into my garbage can and it scurried deep into my garbage when trying to put fruit flies into its cage  :unsure:  - is that bad that it got into garbage with...

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Cagn, the survivor of the fall! He has absolutely no problems and loves to hop around! So far, 4 of my mantids have molted, and they're all turning green!

I am sorry about your loss :(  It's never great losing your pet mantis that you've spent so much time with.. I hope he lived a nice, long happy life!

UPDATE: It pulled through! Gosh that was a quick molt! Under 45 minutes! It fell twice.. I just grabbed it back up, held it until it started moving again.. perked right back up, and looked right at me like "Thanks bud, I would have been screwed without you!" and hopped right back into the...

@CosbyArt Well one just started molting real quickly.. But, bad news, it fell :(  I hopt it's okay, but I'm going to assume it won't make it. Hopefully it falling on the damp paper towel will help.

:wub:  They are something that's for sure. I remember when I was 8, just moved here from Seattle. We don't have these fellas there.. I was outside waiting for my parents to check into our hotel room as we were still looking for a home. I saw something move at the corner of my eye real close to...

@CosbyArt Thank you! Couple days later, and they're getting even bigger!  :blink:  I don't think they've molted yet, no skins laying around, but they are looking quite plump and I can see the smaller features on them now! I think they're close to molting though. They're moving slower now, and...

Small quick update: Yeesh, these youngins are bug-eating machines.. I put in 4 fruit flies for each nymph in my 8 containers and every single one of those fatties ate every single one of those flies overnight.  :blink:  Man they are going to grow up so nice healthy :)  Going to wait a while...