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nice photo. some of mine also moulted to L5 last night, coincidence!

i must not be feeding them right as this is the biggest girl i ever had :P :rolleyes: : ps - its long dead, not crippled.

mine have reached 3 inches at best.

there were a few people here: http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10481 but nothing written for some time.

"them's the brokes" :( but also i mainly meant the ones yen sold a few months back. i think i remember reading that he sold them to around 20 people in the usa? i know probably only a few of those post on the forum, but still it would be interesting to see what became of yens first generation.

misinformation, i reckon. only a couple of years back (even still today, in some places) the "care sheets" for this species always said things like 85% humidity, and spraying them twice a day. i think people feeding them crickets may have something to do with it. and i guess the whole way the...

yeh, i imagine also idolomantis, but i have not actually tried giving them that temperature so dont know for sure first hand. but then again i have no reason to try it.

wow, i was sure our (infrequent, admittedly) snows and general winter cold would be the killer but i guess not!

72F/22C is probably just fine for alot of species, but deffinitely not enough for some.

if you really want to know the humidity in the 32oz cups, i would say just put the hygrometer into a similar mocked-up cup, and spray it/treat it as if there was a mantis inside. i guess thats the only way of really knowing. i have a combined thermometer/hygrometer that is too bigt to fit into...

not as a rule, it just is usually only the males because the females are usually too heavy, but from what i have seen of tropidomantis it seems to me they never really get that heavy or fat, certainly not as much as other mantis species. they are probably small and light enough for flying to be...

even if you had, there hasnt been a peep out of the usa lot in ages (you can see the thread is probably even on page 2 now, or close).

deffinitely presubadult. how are the rest of yours doing? also the usa idolomantis people have been kind of quiet lately, how is everyone doing over there?

i guess the purpose is pretty much what you stated, to do with increasing hatch rate etc. whether it works, well that's a different question... ;)

i use a net fully (let them fly out of their tank into the net, and then out of the net into the mantis container. same with wild caught flies/moths/bumblebees etc) as my fly tank is too big for the fridge :P <_<

also think about the way heat rises, and insulation to not lose the heat you create. if you do it right you can heat a fair amount of seperate cups with just a heat mat or just one bulb, even if they are not directly on the mat/lit by the bulb.

to be sure you would need to look at the pronotum. if the pronotum is nearly as wide as it is long - P. occelata if the pronotum is wider than it long. - P. wahlbergii ocellata: wahlbergii:

nice! this has turned into a really helpful thread!

just the one? the consequences would probably be nil. as for what would happen, with the weather we have been having the past few days in london i reckon it would do ok for a while. however it would never make it through the winter (if it even got that far which is doubtful), and as it is the...

some people like to keep the nymphs together and let them thin the numbers until youre down to a more "managable" number. if keeping a antive species some people may release them. i think most people sell/give away the ones they dont want, that's what i would do.