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What are the differences, why should I keep 1 or the other. I'm looking to buy a big active mantis, if you have other recommendations I will gladly look into them.

Hi I was wondering if it was possible to keep several Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii together in one enclosure, I couldn't find any correct data concerning them. One site says they can't be put together, while others say they can without cannibalism if there is enough food. Was hoping for a more...

Hi, I started out with 6 ghosts, all well fed, but over the last 4 days, 2 of them have gone missing in a 20*20*30 terra. My other ghosts haven't eaten them as they don't get any fatter, I think the ones responsible are my springtails. Is this possible? I mean they are so tiny, would they ever...

My Ghost mantids! Shot with my cellphone so quality isn't the best, but still nice imo.

Like the title says, what do mantids mean to you, why do you keep them and what species do you own/have you owned. Why did you choose that species and would you recommend them or not?

So funny enough, I found a way to catch some flies pretty easy in case you ran out of them and your mantids need food pretty fast. Probably some of you already did this before but just posting it here for those who could use it. First, take your vacuum cleaner, put a sock over the top, use a...

Hi, I just wanted to know at what temperature you keep your maggots and casters in the fridge. I kept them before in another fridge but didn't check at what temperature, don't want them to freeze to death now. The fridge is at 12°C atm.

My new nano exo terra 20*20*30 enclosure. Ghosts arriving in 2 weeks, hope they'll like it ^^

My female mantis is getting 2-4 bottleflies a day and is really fattend up, today I woke up to her eating her own front leg. Any idea why she's doing this?

When a male mantis mates with a female mantis, does the sperm package stay within the female forever, or is it like a 1 time use. I had a female and male mantis, but yesterday the male died, they did mate a lot before. Will the ootheca still contain little mantids or will it be emty?

So my female Ghost mantis is about 2 weeks into adulthood right now and she has mated like 8 times already, when should I expect to see the first ootheca appear? Right now she's nice fed, I try not to overfeed her since I read something about egg bounded animals, so right now she eats about 4-5...

Was about time to start adding some new moss, since the old got brown and well, it's a whole new enclosure. Love the smell of the forest when I stick my head inside there ^^ and it seems my mantids also really love it :D  

Hello again I have a little problem with my male mantis who just turned into an adult. Since his molt a few days back he is still not eating, I've had this before but mostly they start eating after about 2 or 3 days after the molt. But this one is molted like 6 or 7 days ago. There are lots of...

So my ghosts only went from L4 to L5 like 3 weeks ago and tonight 2 of them already molted again and are now L6's.. I read it usually takes about 5 weeks at least, so is this behavior normal? I keep them in a large terrarium where they can move around a lot with humidity about 70-80% and a...

So I have 3 ghost mantids and 1 of them, a female, is behaving quite strange the last 2 days. She looks like she's drunk, walking around in a weird way other than usual and sometimes she's hitting the ground with her head. I noticed she's holding like 1 of her arms close to her body like it's...

So recently 3 of my ghosts molted into L5, and now they all look quite flat so I figured they'd be pretty hungry. But none of them want to eat anything, they all just swipe their prey away from them, are they sick or is this behavior normal? I tried giving them honey, this works though but I...

Hello everyone Just a quick question here, I just sprayed my vivarium a bit and saw some little white worms on the sides of the glass. Turns out they are Nematodes, I don't really know what they do or how they got there, but is there anyone that could tell me if they are dangerous to my insects...

Well I was thinking of maybe adding some stick insects to my enclosure which hold ghost mantids, since every care sheet tells me that they do not eat anything larger than their head size, is this true or not? Can I house different insects together without the mantids eating the others?

Thought I'd share my terrarium build with you all, been working on it a lot and I've let the internet inspire me. I tried to create my own little ecosystem in there and so far it's all going as planned. it's a 45cm*45*60 container and I'm planning on keeping 3 ghosts in here. :)

Hello everyone Does anyone know if shrooms are harmful for mantids? I recently build my terrarium, I used coco husk and wood we scrambled with some machine as soil. But then after some weeks I saw mycelium growing in the part we made ourselves. I've already seen 2 mushooms popping up, but I...