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Didn't end up buying any mantises, but I ran into a few issues and couldn't complete a transaction. Even though communication was a little choppy at first, Craig worked with me and gave me a full refund. Satisfied with how the entire process went, thanks Craig!

I ordered 6 ghost nymphs from him and was surprised to find two extra individuals shipped with my order. Each mantis was in its own container labeled with its molt and date. Almost instant replies and extremely professional communication, and thorough to the point of providing care tips and...

My male creo just molted into adulthood and I'm looking for a female to mate him with. PM me if you have one available, thanks!

Hello everyone, I keep inverts (Ts, scorps, pedes, wasps, all that nonsense), fish and a couple mantises, and I've been lurking here for a while so now I'd like to come out and introduce myself! I'm from the Bay Area where the sky is blue and the religiosas are yellow, like I've literally never...

H. arizonensis are an obligate burrowing species and must be able to tunnel around in their substrate. For my H. spadix (a nearly identical species), I gave it 5 inches of a 30% excavator clay and 70% sand substrate. Clay is necessary, since normal sand won't hold up tunnels. Make sure the...

Mantises have been moved to a sunnier area (no direct sunlight!) and are now being misted daily. None of my other mantises suffered from eating wild-caught flies so if pesticides were an issue I might've just gotten an unlucky individual. Either way they are now eating captive houseflies so I am...

I am very new to keeping mantises and have been experiencing some extremely high mortality rates with my creo nymphs: out of the 9 L3 nymphs I started with I have already lost 5 since the past two months, 3 L3 and 2 L4s. They started out on FFFs, then as they molted into L4 ate wild-caught...

Just received some Creo nymphs from Dave, all arrived in very good condition, he even included some extras. Package was a bit delayed (by the mail carrier, Dave shipped out ASAP) but packing was so good that there were virtually no casualties. Amazing seller, good communication, will definitely...