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WooHoo!!!! Finally today I had taken my baby fish out of their 8 litre glass tank and put them in my 28 litre aquarium :P . So now I can keep a few mantises in there :) . I have set it up now and it looks really cool. Now all I need to do is wait until spring to find one....... :rolleyes:

I just found out my oothcea was not fertile it is black inside. :angry: I am waiting until spring to find some nymps in the garden :rolleyes: At the moment the weather is horrible here. I wish it would change soon :blink:

I was spraying the ootheca's tank and it suddenly fell of and dropped onto the bottom of the container :angry: Will this damage the ootheca?? I have stuck it with bluetack back onto the tank now.

Evey night I put a wheat pack under my ootheca's cage for a minute. I heat the wheat bag up for 30 seconds. I put it under the cage because it is in the middle of winter and I want them to hatch. Is this okay?? :huh:

Does a oothcea have a high chance of being fertile and surviving even if it looks a little black and has a tiny hole on the side :huh:

It is now winter down here I can not see any of my mantises in my garden. Will they come out in spring?? I really want to see them again!! :rolleyes:

Yesterday I found a tool box with a preying mantis when I walked passed a building site. And guess what was in it...A female preying mantis laying an oothea in the tool box!! I found a small container and put the tools in it then I carefully had taken them home because I diddn't want to move the...

Hi I am soo excited to join such a great website. I have more than 100 mantises living in my garden and I have one egg sack still waiting to hatch. I have been breeding mantises for 3 years now :)