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i have a female giant asian and after her last molt she wouldnt take even realy small prey. today when i was handling her i noticed her front ratorial leg was bending out in an awkward way and put her straight back in her enclosure. Also i have noticed there is soomething watery with a brown...

Well the ootheca i was realy worried about hatched four little nymphs yay( in a sarcastic way) two of them died and now i have two left, i had ordered food of the interent for the next lot coming out but no sign of them at all, then just today i accidently broke the ootheca by dropping it on the...

Yesterday i bought a litre of maggots for around £2.50 which is brilliant. I was wondering does anyone else breed maggots and what do yo feed them on(wish they had a name i knew) and if you do then could you tell me when they will turn into casters and then flies. Also how long will it take for...

Hi yesterday my mantids molted and i noticed that when they came out of their old skin they were very fat and much bigger than when their skin began hardening about half an hour afterwards. Is this normal, do they pump up their abdomens to push out of the old skin?

The ootheca arrived today and it is an Taiwan green bush mantids ootheca. I am worried because the egg seems very brittle and crispy, some of the little pods are visable and i don't have the first clues how to keep the ootheca in the correct position like which way is up and which way is down...

I am not sure when it come to making sure the tank is at the right humidity. I used to think it was okay when the glass on the tank had condensation on the sides but now i am not sure at all. Does the tank flooring or substrate have to be kept wet constantly or is spraying lightly the tank...

What should i feed my crickets and how do tell the female from the males? Are there any special enviromental needs for the crickets to breed? Any other useful information would be good appreciated.

I was thinking of making a new generation of mantids with the two i have now. How do i make sure i have a male and a female. I know your supposed to count the underside of the abdomen but do you count the last pointy segement(the end of the abdomen)? When they are mature how do i know there...

I have two giant asain mantids and was wondering what size tank would be neccesery for them as adults. right now i have a tank for each of them but might be putting them together and will need a larger tank.

I had ten african mantids one by one they died either by eating eachother or dying from hunger. in the end the strongest one was left. I went on holiday and left my mam to looking after the last mantid and gave her simple clear instructions; 'give the mantid two small crickets after two days...

Hello i am new to this forum. Recently one of my mantids molted and on one of itts eyes there was a green blob and the other there seemed to be something inside the eye. It didn't realy react very well to much movement but i thought this could be because it had just molted. not sure at all...