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@MaydayVFR Hello and welcome! I'm fairly new here, and just got my first mantis in July, but I'm learning a lot here already.  I'd love to learn more about carnivorous plants if you'd be willing to talk at me about them!

Seeing as I'm 24 and got my little Enigma in July, I started keeping mantids at 24. 😉 And she's a Giant Asian mantis. 

From what I understand, for almost any animal (excluding extreme specialists that have evolved to eat a very limited diet), it's always best to vary their diet if you can. I personally think it's just a good habit to get into for pets that have a varied diet in nature.  I think there are plenty...

I'm so glad he's been found and is alright!!

I might make my roommate get out his good camera and try to get some pics - even with my old phone (which ironically has a seriously better camera than my current phone), I couldn't get the cell phone camera to focus.  If we can get some pics with the good camera, I'll post again.  Thank you...

@MantisMart It is! I cut out a large circle of the plastic lid, and then hot glued some mesh over the opening.  And thank you both, I'm pretty happy with it! I'm excited for when I get to make the big enclosure and get Enigma settled in, but I don't want to yet while it's so small. 

Thanks! I'd love additional opinions?  @hysteresis @MantisGirl13

@hysteresis I guess I phrased that a bit off - I was mostly looking for opinions on whether it's now L3 or L4. It seems pretty big to me, but then I don't have any experience with how big an L4 "should" be.  Thank you so much for the diagram, that's a huge help! I managed to get some decent...

@MantisGirl13 @hysteresis Thank you so much for the welcomes! :D @MantisMart Thank you!! I'm so excited for them to grow up!!   @MrGhostMantis That's awesome - I'd love to chat more if you want 😄 And don't worry, the little cup in those pictures is just the cup that I got the little guy in...

I got my first mantis, Enigma, from Peter of bugsincyberspace early this month, and just yesterday it molted for the first time since I've had it. It was advertised as L2-L3 when I bought it, and since this is the first time it's molted, I'm assuming it's L4 now, but I'd love other opinions. It...

@MantisMart @hibiscusmile @MrGhostMantis Thank you all for the warm welcomes! ☺️ MrGhostMantis - That's awesome! What else do we have in common (mantids are a given lol)? 😄 I'd love to find more invert-friendly people to chat with, if anyone would like to add me on Discord! My handle is krogan...

Hello, everyone!  I'm Tabby. I'm 24, born in Pennsylvania but now living in Texas, and despite a lifelong love of bugs am fairly new to keeping inverts!  I got my pet mantis, Enigma the Giant Asian Mantis, a week or two ago from bugsincyberspace, and they just molted for the first time (since...