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What do you keep them in?

I just got ten Ghost Mantises and in deli cups and I was wondering what you guys suggest using to heat them and what thermostats and thermometers you all use and would suggest and hygrometers as well. Also Im pretty sure about the temperature range and humidity I need but just to be sure what do...

I have not kept Orchid Mantises before but I would expect that she would still be able to mate and lay her Ooths as long as she can hold on to a spot to lay them. Assuming all her plumbing is working properly and if she eats less she should still be able to produce ooths that have viable eggs it...

I can take care of him I think but I need to buy a new enclosure for him. One that I can turn into a handicap enclosure. He currently is sharing an enclosure with his brother but he needs special care where I take the lid off more and invert the container and such and thats kind of hard with his...

Ok so both of his back legs got bend while drying and now they just flop back and forth freely above the knee with gravity is there anything I can put on his leg like a tiny splint or clear nail polish or something that would make that part of his leg stiff again? I figure nail polish would be...

The second one seems to have fallen during his molt so its hard to tell how much damage that caused besides the two broken limbs.

My only other male mantis that I really hoped would be healthy just molted and he had a horrible miss-molt I think he fell. Not so bad that I think its life threatening unless one of the crippled limbs dies and becomes infected or toxic to the rest of the mantis but both his back legs are...

Its kinda like that buts its really hard to see because it doesn't stick out that far.

As a side note I wanted to try and mate him with a female but it seems like that would probably be a bad idea. Maybe for both the male and female.

No he seems normal as far as I can tell he eats everything I give him he actually is a little thin if anything but I think he will fatten up when I feed him more but he has already ate a good bit so I didn't want to load him full all at once and hes been pooping normally maybe less than he used...

I cant get a picture to post but that does seem like what it is.

It seems like it would be unlikely he would eat himself for food because he would get much less from eating himself than he would lose by eating himself. But I have heard of Mantises eating themselves if a limb becomes damaged or infected or something like that to in order to prevent death or...

One of my male Chinese Mantises but the tip of the end of his abdomen is not symmetrical and there is a sort of greenish blob looking thing on one side. Its hard to get a look at it and I cant mange to get a picture to post but I was wondering if anyone knew if its a problem like some sort of...

A Female Chinese mantis lives a good long time anyway my last one lived from when they are born in the wild to deep into winter and almost made it to the next spring.

By pigment do u mean a "pupil". someone correct if im wrong because im not sure but im pretty sure that mantis have no pupils since they have compound eyes what you see is basically just an optical illusion but i wouldn't think it would mater as long as he can still see to hunt. and another molt...

You could try to catch some wild things to feed them. some types of plants attract lots of little bugs or you could check out petsmarts to see if any of them have those little vials of fruit flies they sometimes carry. If you use either of these ways you most likely wont get enough to feed them...

Do the poly fabric lids work fine for mantises to hold onto while they molt?

Sometimes with some species of insects an unfertilized female will lay eggs and general the eggs wont hatch due to being not fertilized but sometimes one or two eggs can hatch by basically being a clone of the mother through parthenogenesis. I dont know if mantises or ghosts in particular can do...

I know exactly how you feel I started with around 12. As of this morning I now have 5 remaining. I keep thinking im doing something wrong but the bigger they get the less problems they seem to have. But I dont think either of us are doing anything wrong I think a lot just dont end up making it...

Yeah they seem to be very vulnerable to a lot of things. I lost two in the same day one from a mismolt and one from a crease that formed in its abdomen.