I hope you all plan to keep these mantids for awhile! I started with 1 adult male and 1 adult female from Mikhail in Jan 08. They are both still alive and the female continues to produce ooths. She has dropped a total of 10 ooths thus far!
Acromantis formosana Hatched!!
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my current ones are first generation, and i plan on keeping them for at least another generation, as they don't take up much room/time (take alot of food though), and are great feeders.
OGIGA
Dead Leaf Mantis
Wow. If they reproduce that quickly, I've going to need to get a huge "mantis house" (like Rick's) and flight-capable fruit flies. I'll just let them loose in there and they'll do their thing.
Hopefully they don't find their way outside... or if they do, then they won't survive the winter.
OGIGA
Dead Leaf Mantis
Here's my photo of them just hatched
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asdsdf
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They sure enjoy eating...They ate soooo much that their abdomen was like 2 times its normal body length, no kidding. It was sooo bloated that I thought they were going to pop. Magically, they molted to L4 and it all disappeared. o.o Magic fat loss.
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OGIGA
Dead Leaf Mantis
I dumped a whole bunch of hydei in their container yesterday. They ate a whole lot of them but there are still hydei everywhere. It may have been a bad time to do that because I think the second round of hatchlings are trying to prepare for their molt. I hope the others eat all the hydei quickly!
