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Thats cool, sounds like you have got it all setup :) What will you do when they get a little larger? Bigger cups i guess. I wonder how many more you will get from that ooth! Well if you need to get rid of any then i might be interested ;-)

Yeah thats ok. I will probably just start off with one and then may get another. The tank will house two, it can be easily seperated. It was meant to be a fish tank and is a good 14" wide, 12" high and 12" deep :) I think i got my species name a bit wrong. I think i meant the Giant Asian...

25! How do you keep all of those?!? Are they in seperate containers? That sounds like quite the handful you have there! :lol: I think i will stick to one or possibly 2 for now. I would like to try mating them but i have a long time to go before i try that i think :)

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Hi all, I have read that a good beginner species is the giant asian mantid. I like the look of this one two being a nice green colour. Is this the best one or does anyone have any other recommendations? I will be looking to get one at the beginning of April once ive moved into my new place...

Thanks, Matt. I will go shopping one evening this week and see what i can find :-)

Excellent thanks! I will have a search and see what i can get :-) LOL, how subtle of you :P Nice selection you have, i dont think my mantid will like them tho! lol! Thanks for the advice everyone :-D

Hi all, Im in the UK and thinking of gettin a Mantid. I was wondering which plants (small plants) i can use for the tank, i have heard that some can be poisonous to mandids. Any advice would be great! Thanks!

fair enough, Finally!! She is attempting to eat now, i put a smaller cricket on there and she still wasnt interested. She didnt want to hunt for it. So the cricket worked its way round the enclosure and met her. She jus sat there for ages looking at it and then caught it and started to eat...

This is exactly what i have been thinking about, with the freezer they will obviously know that its bloody cold and that they are gonna die! :( At least with crushing her i thought it would be less painless and much, much quicker and they wouldnt even have a chance to know whats going on...

:cry: ok well i will leave her for a while, there is still hope! thanks for the help

i only took the pic today so i put it on straight after i took it. yeah, i have left her now, i will wait until 2mo evening and then see if she eats. In the freezer :? is that the best way then? i suppose its better than starving to death but still not quick tho is it? :(

no she keeps running off, i also put one right infront of her (cricket) and she jus looked at it and wandered off. didnt even make an attempt to grab it. she is starting to look a bit thin now 2 :(

hi, my mantis had a bad moult which resulted in half of her old skin being left on her face, she kept trying to get it off but only got it halfway there. I noticed that she had lost both antennas because of her constant scratching. A little piece started to come off and i managed to remove it...

it is still attached at the top of the head and down her left eye. The antenna are still poking through the old skin, it is not hanging off that much. she is moving about alot so i am afriad that if i do try and pull it off i will damage her head and even pull off her antenna. She is still...

she is moving about quite a bit and i dont wanna get her out incase she runs off! it must be annoying her tho coz she keeps trying to get at it. she can reach it jus about i think. I have just misted the enclosue to raise the humidity up to about 80-90, i also misted her a little to, i hope she...

Hi all, My mantis is now jus done its 5th moult but the old skin of the head has got caught on her. Half of the old skin is still attached a little. Do i jus leave her to it? I can see that she keeps trying to get it off, should i try and help somehow :? thanks for the help :D

fair enough :) its jus a case of her settling in then :) Well i would be the same! lol. I will she how she goes in the next few days and see if she stops :) Thanks everyone for the help!

ah, well its a female, captive bread mantis! lol. So i suppose the shouldnt be doing it much. Oh well i hope she is ok.

hi, I seem to have one active mantid! everythime i go and see her she is walking around the top. The only time she stayed still was when she was eating. The temp is around 24 and humidity is 65-75%. Could it be the conditions or something else? Thanks :)