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Wow thats a long mantis!! very cool I read that they are quite rare to find.

nothing wrong with a nibble.. :D as said misting more often is a good way of stopping that :D

She has not eaten in a week of the molt, normal for her but if it does come to it how would I nurse a nymph to eat.....she sketches out or tries to climb on me as much as I adore her climbing all over me, I really want her to eat somthing :s

I let her harden up for 24 hours and put smaller circkets in her and moved her to a bigger tank, could that be a cause of a bad molt, she could have been stressed?..i am going to check on her when i return from uni.

so how will that affect her feeding, will i have to take the crickets heads off and put it to her face i have dont that with millie my other mantis.... she looks like she needs a prosthetic limb ;) heeeheee i felt really bad when i first saw.....i thought i would have to put her down :(

Petal my sheild has just molted for the 4 time and one of her catching arms is a stump the gripping part of one of her arms has not molted with her.....is that a problem or will it re appear next molt and can she feed as usual with only one arm. OLLY

well unless she did it herself, then she is into self harming...and councelling is the answer, i thought the cricket did it cos i have heard stories of crickets eating or nibbling on mantids she is an L3 or L4

Petal i noticed this morning had lost the tip to her front legs, the leg itself is fine but the walking part of the end has been eaten off by a dirty little cricket, will she be ok when hunting as there is no real damage just he walks with a bit of a hobble......

Its like 6 x 6 inch keeper i moved her to a smaller one, still not feeding tho, shes driving me crazy and i dont want her to die................ :(

A medium critter keeper, she has shed twice does that make her and L3 or somthing.... Olly

hey Ian Petal shed last night, I have moved her from her old container to a new larger-ish one, i am going to give it a few hours before I try and feed her let her harden up. i am really wondering what sort of size house would be best i dont want to put her in anything to big as she find the...

Hey guys, I am glad you like the name Ian she really is a little darling, she molted about 2 weeks ago and now is twice as big and now is taking medium crickets with out even batting an eyelid, I really want to show you a picture of her....is there a way of doing that

Cheers guys, get this i chucked in 3 stage 3 crickets and she stalked one down should i take thr other 2 out or leave them in there for when she is hungry again........shes a little devil :D p.s and her name is Petals

Just got my Malaysian shield nymph through from Ian who I have to say gives great service :) , but i am stuck with what size food i should feed her, no where seems to sell micro crickets....I do have some smaller browns I could try her with any help, could i use fruit flies??

Yeh that happend to millie but then she just got used to them, is the mantis new?? or recently moved tank?

Crickets are little buggers, i lost 2 i found them both in my sitting room so both got what was coming to them Millie had a feast....yummy

Yeh millies is a Lineloa ans she is fine with it, a bit jumppy when my flat mates see her, which is odd but she knows me..i think

i have bought her (shield mantis) a smaller tank currently Millies tank is quite large and I want to see a mantis hunt its food, i have to hand feed Mills as she cant always find the crickets as the tank is to large.....so the shield mantis can hunt and i can film it :D

I bought it from Ian who posts here from his online store, as he lives in UK and near by where i live in Bristol, but i am currently in Plymouth

Malay Shield Mantis, OK do they need any different care from that of a Sphodromantis african species...I know she will grow HUGE and I have all the tanks set up for her when she arrives do they need it more humid i am probably asking a question which has been asked 10 million times if so...very...