No1left4jocker
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Hey everyone,
My names Trent I've been on the forums now for a couple of months looking at pictures, reading up on mantids, and watching the common health issues mantids may have.
I have purchaces two mantids from mantisplace.com; An orchid mantis, and a "mystery mantis" that neither Rebecca at mantisplace knew the type or through my avid looking and searching online could I come up with its type. From my looking I believed it was an Mayalan Dead Leaf mantis however now that he is an adult I dont believe this to be true. I have pictures posted in my galery for those of you that want to take the time to try and figure out what mantis it is. Early April 2010, my orchid molted and the next day i had her out of her to my work in her cage. Later that day I took her out of the cage and let her roam my laptop for the warmth thats when i noticed that her right back leg the pad was missing off her foot. I saw this to be alarming because at the same time I noticed this I had to touch her rear-end to get her foot out of her mouth. I wasnt sure if that was a self mutalation or if she lost it in her exoskeleton (which I checked and no missing foot) so i was lead to believe that she had finished eatting it off for no real reason. I made a post in the health/self mutalation post
My names Trent I've been on the forums now for a couple of months looking at pictures, reading up on mantids, and watching the common health issues mantids may have.
I have purchaces two mantids from mantisplace.com; An orchid mantis, and a "mystery mantis" that neither Rebecca at mantisplace knew the type or through my avid looking and searching online could I come up with its type. From my looking I believed it was an Mayalan Dead Leaf mantis however now that he is an adult I dont believe this to be true. I have pictures posted in my galery for those of you that want to take the time to try and figure out what mantis it is. Early April 2010, my orchid molted and the next day i had her out of her to my work in her cage. Later that day I took her out of the cage and let her roam my laptop for the warmth thats when i noticed that her right back leg the pad was missing off her foot. I saw this to be alarming because at the same time I noticed this I had to touch her rear-end to get her foot out of her mouth. I wasnt sure if that was a self mutalation or if she lost it in her exoskeleton (which I checked and no missing foot) so i was lead to believe that she had finished eatting it off for no real reason. I made a post in the health/self mutalation post
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