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I myself have only ever had to put down 1 of my mantids, I chose the squish because I to felt that was the kinder option.

It's very possible they came from the same ooth. I myself have 6 double shield's that have all been raised in the exact same conditions (enclosures, food, temperature etc) and they all vary pretty substatially. They all hatched from the same ooth at the same type, 1 is sub-adult, 1 is pre-sub...

She is thirsty, attempting to drink the moisture from your hand.

A female budwing of mine molted from L4 to L5 fine and she literally only had 3 legs, she chewed one off for some unknown reason. 3 legs is stable enough to molt, it's 2 that's sketchy (I have seen it done but she ended up having a wonky raptorial because she hit the bottom of the enclosure...

I think you can take it from alot of us... It won't be your last :P

I prefer ASC (advanced system care) over CC cleaner, it's also free and does a few extra things CC cleaner doesn't do. (I don't use it's always-active features though)

Whatislove Ofcourse :P Either that or "The Source"

It happened to my budwing, but when she molted she broke a vessel and had 'blood' leaking into one of her wings so i figured that is why the wings didn't expand. She is still alive and well after a few months and i guess it's not a huge deal for a budwing female because they can only use theirs...

My dead leaf mantids do that occasionally, I know they are due for a molt and they hang in a molting position very close to the ground but as soon as it's time for them to do it, they move up top or atleast further upward.

Wow... i didnt know there were any 'cool' mantids in the hierodula family... I really want some of these lol

The only things you should avoid are ants and really venomous spiders (and even the spiders is usually fine but you do run the risk of it getting a good shot in and killing your mantis), ants are small and call reinforcements. Other than that just avoid any bugs that have been near pesticides...

I'd have to say budwing... they have been known to literally eat themselves to death if you aren't careful with the amount of food you give them.

No worries hibiscus, I've got no experience with tenodera so I don't know how big the nymphs are, the only nymphs I haven't been able to feed pinhead crickets are oxy and ghost because they are tiny.

As for recommendations on the feeding, just start putting food in the enclosures you currently have, putting fruit flies or pinhead crickets into the enclosure, even with 24hour-old hatchlings isnt going to hurt, they will eat when they are ready and the flies and crickets have no chance of...

It has been pretty common for me. I had 2 taumantis sigiana ooths and 1 omomantis zebrata, the 2 taumantis started hatching at exactly the same time and combined I had about 120 nymphs, I left it for a day before moving them into a mega enclosure but I kept the ooths attached to the original...

I have to add onto agent A's observations there, I got an oxy nymph at the moment that is no bigger than the end of a q-tip and it stalked, caught, restrained and ate a roach almost 5 times its size.

Yeah, Just like davedood, I just judge by their bodies. You can tell when they are filled up and when they are getting thin. Also, depending on the species they may know not to over eat and will just threat pose/refuse to eat/run away from the food when they are full (Not budwings though :P )

Alot of the time I have to resort to handfeeding nymphs brine shrimp because fruit fly cultures are so sporadic. They love the stuff and as soon as I pop the toothpick in the enclosure they stalk it like they would prey. Raw meats lack a few things that mantids need but brine shrimp has most...

I can't believe she is even alive after it, badly hurt would be a miracle after that experience. It's hard to give any hope that it could possibly survive after that ordeal, the soap would've got to it pretty thoroughly, not to mention alot of broken limbs I'm guessing

2 of my double shields were bright pink when they molted to L3... but it only lasted a few hours and they were brown again :(