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Ok so I set up a eye candy tank ... with land and water ... the water portion had a few guppies in it for a natural look ... and while my african was taking a drink he noticed a fish ... and grabed it and ate it :shock: is this harmful to the mantid ?!

I have got 2 RES ( red eared sliders ) does anyone else have any turtles I love them lol

Now that I have some experiance in raising manitds I think that I would like to become a breeder just to make a couple bucks or cover the cost of rasing them until I get good at it. Is their a species anyone would reccomend for begginer breeding ?

my L4 Sphodromantis centralia started acting weird today seems she is moving rather slowly and not even looking at prey that goes right past her ..... I gave her the last cricket of the batch i had for a month i hope she didnt get sick from it do you think it may be that she is going to moult ...

Ok so my adult male carolina is a over 2 months into adulthood and i read that this is about how long they live in adulthood i think is going to pass soon because he can no longer keep a good grip on the screen on the top of the cage and he is very sluggish ... and doesnt really move around...

Does anyone know if there are any shows about mantids, any documentaries out there, anything about them on televsion out there ? i was just wondering because I wwould like to see thier behavior in the wild in the comfort of my own home ... lol jk ... i dont really have any mantids in my area...

I found this thing outside there seems to be alot of them but my mantids show no interest in them and the bugs smell like roses :shock: im thinking it wards of preds with the smell and maybe its bad to feed to mantids heres the pic Does anyone know what this is and if mantids can eat it and...

:cry: one of my grass mantis nymphs lost a leg ..... what should i do about this ... it is only L2 do you think he has much of a chance ? do legs grow back ?

how do you tell if your L1 nymph is going to moult ? should they be hanging upside down when moulting or does it matter thank you

This is my carolina purchased from sarah elliot it looks great i like the color on these brown body, black wings, green legs, haha even camo forearms great mantid :D

:shock: my TINY TINY grass mantis nyph tackled a mosquito as big as him !!!! its amazing lol

I bought a 25 watt heat bulb and it really doesnt put off much heat at all and i think i could keep it on all the time without doing any harm ... should you turn these off every once in awhile just to let them cool down ? is their any risk of fire from leaving them on ? thank you

So I want to keep 2 different kinds of manitds at a time ... A exotic and/or pretty manitd, and a more aggresive fun mantid .. I have a grass mantid for the little calmer more exotic speices and I am wondering what type of manitd i should get for the more aggresive type I want somthing that will...

Once the fruit flys medium has dried up what do you do .... is there anyway to loosen it up again or do i gotta go buy a new culture ?

so i am ordering a grass mantid and i was wondering if anyone here has ever raised one ? if so can you please tell me .. do they have any special needs ? can you tell a little bit about how they are and act ? thank you :lol: haha im looking forward to tear apart fruit flies withmy new speices...

I was thinking since grass mantids are so small, have such small forearms, and look very much like walking sticks .... are they as fun and interesting to keep as more common species such as a chinese or grandis ?

I am getting some grass mantids and i would ust like to know if this breed needs any type of special care ... also how much should i mist them and ... as adults how big of prey can they eat since they have very thin forarms thank you

so in the medium for fruit fly a fruit fly culture is there somthing alternative I could use instead of yeist ? thank you ! :D

so i bought a fruit fly culture and I was wondering ... would it be beter to keep the culture in the light .. or in the dark .. is there any difference ??? thank you !

Hey I was wondering if anyone plays any mmo's I play Eq and Eq2 anyone else play any ? :D