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my adult male ghost (phylocrania paradoxa) has been refusing to eat for about a little over a week now. he went through his final molt about a month ago. the last few days hes been struggling to walk on his own, its like hes twitchy or losing control of his limbs. he refuses to take prey, it...

im leaving on a trip and cant take my mantis with me. i usually feed him every 3 - 5 days, will he be okay missing a feeding or two? ive never left him for that long before. edit: i have somebody whos going to water him while im away, but hes not comfortable handling insects.

my ghost mantis went through his final molt a few days ago and he was doing alright, his wings were severly deformed but he took food and didnt seem to have any mobility issues so i was keeping an eye on him. I went to check on him a few minutes ago and when i went over to his enclosure he moved...

I have an i5 (i believe, shes big enough to eat a housefly) ghost mantis who I have had trouble finding food for. I'm not able to hatch house or bottle flies so i tried feeding her dubia roaches and she wont take them. The only thing ive been able to get her to eat is d. hydei but she eats 20+...

sorry if this is a dumb question im new to keeping millipedes. what is this band behind my little guys head? is he just molting? it doesnt seem to bother him too much but i noticed two or three pairs of legs dont work right underneath it.

I got this guy at the pet store yesterday and he was labelled as a North American Millipede (Narceus Americanus) but the more i look at him I think he might be Chicobolus Spinigerus? I thought maybe he just had weird coloring when I got him but he looks exactly like C. Spinigerus. Are some more...

sorry if its a stupid question, but my mantis has outgrown the fruit flies i was feeding her but i still have an absolutely immense amount of them. what would be the best thing to do with them? i have three unopened culture tubes which amounts to 300+ flies and they've been putting off larvae so...

i recieved my first mantis in the mail on oct. 12 as an I4 nymph (ghost mantis). when i got her she ate one fruit fly and has refused food since. shes been hanging upside down since i got her so i think shes ready to molt. i increased the humitidy in the tank and slightly raised temperature but...

Hi! my names Atlas, and im super new to mantid keeping. it was actually today that i recieved my first ghost nymph in the mail. ive always had plants and pets of some variety but ive never been allowed to have insects or herps until now. right now aside from the mantis i have a syrian hamster...