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Let me know if you manage to get a culture going as it is a species I would love to try again sometime. I sort of feel like it might be fun to get a thread going for those culturing/wanting to culture native species to chat/network in. Seems at times it is harder to get native species over a...

Unfortunately like a lot of mantises availability is largely decided by if someone happens to be culturing them. Sadly our even more exotic looking natives tend to get passed up for other non-native exotics, when it comes to keeping species in culture. I had no problem getting this species a...

Oh wow, so sad to hear this. Despite the fact it has been many years since he was active on the forum, his presence still lingers here and amongst those who knew him, like the reassuring prickle of gently clinging mantis feet.

@CosbyArt Apparently it really agreed with her because she was overdue for an ootheca and I just checked and she laid one last night. XD

I got a electrically heated blanket type thing for my shoulder/neck a couple weeks back and last night I decided to see if my mantis Abyss needed some soothing stress relief too. I set it on the lowest setting which creates just the slightest bit of warmth and let her check it out. As soon has...

It is generally best never to order live pets through the mail right around Christmas as the mail is prone to getting backed up. Seems like all of my packages have been delayed lately. If the person shipping you packaged the mantis properly, your mantis should have a good chance at survival just...

You shouldn't have to wash off items you purchased to try and rid them of the stench of cigarettes. If everything is perforated in it I would personally request a refund or the seller to send replacements. Whether the seller is a smoker and lying or it happened during shipping still doesn't...

@CosbyArt Do you by any chance have any links to any studies/documentation of superglue used in mantids/other insects that results in what your described? I'll admit most of the superglue usage I've seen mentioned over the years has been by tarantula owners to fix life threatening abdomen...

I am curious about the reasoning behind it getting stuck in a molt? If this was a nymph coming up on a molt I could understand that as the skin beneath would already be highly formed and you could easily end up gluing it in the process, but this mantis just shed. I'm guessing the fact the mantis...

I've found sticking them in a spotless net cage with no oothecae stains always gets my girls going. Something about messing up my pristine net cages sends my lady mantises' abdomens a twitter. On a more serious not, some tricks you can try is re-ranging the decor, adding more sticks/plants/etc...

Yep she has six segments although with a female adult mantis you don't even need to count segments since by then their ovipositer is plainly visible. Don't worry, sexing gets easier after your first couple of mantids.

You can try superglue to seal the hole. Without knowing where the hole is it is hard to say if it will actually save him or just prolong the inevitable. It will all depend on if his digestive track is intact enough to carry food/waste fully down and out. I've also heard of people using honey...

If you are supervising when feeding you can likely get away with the container method with crickets too. They aren't the swiftest creatures and tend to reserve most of their jumping when actively being chased. They will likely scramble around the container for quite a bit before attempting to...

Crickets can't climb glass nor slick plastic but they can jump. Often people suffer from escapees because they try keeping them in a tiny enclosure that the crickets can easily jump out of. The common petstore ones Acheta domesticus will hide at times, but they come waltzing out soon enough...

Sorry to hear you lost several of your boys recently. I don't normally do rebreedings because I rather not risk my boys, but I went ahead and rebred my Carolina recently because she was so chill the first time that I figured it was low risk. Somehow during the initial breeding my boy managed to...

They look pretty but are overpriced for what they are and generally make for inferior enclosures for actual living animals. Mantises love to hang from the ceiling/walls and with a slick dome top that won't be possible unless you either cover the inside of the dome with something textured, which...

She likely thought she sensed food. It could have been her own shadow even that triggered the strike. I've had mantises strike at number of things over the years. Even seen a couple go after their own turds when they were hanging low to where it dropped. One of their favorite targets is my...

Yep typical gutloads aimed at reptiles aren't something I would suggest. Rather than thinking of it as gutloading I would just feed your prey items a healthy diet. Some people like to crush up bee pollen and dust feeders directly before feeding, but I'm sure your roaches will enjoy eating it...

The mantis looks like one cool dude. As for the subject of female mantises flying, I prefer to call their mad skillz in the air, falling slightly slower or falling in style.

Sounds good. Thanks for the info. I'll let you know how the hatching ends up going. =3