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<blockquote data-quote="MantidLord" data-source="post: 196659" data-attributes="member: 1732"><p>Not to mention space. Keeping 30+ cannibalistic mantids requires a separate cage for each one. If everyone did what you seem to require, no one would have enough room. Not to mention, having all of that ###### in there with a mantis allows prey to hide and come out later, chancing upon a vulnerable mantis or an oothecae. You say you want a natural type setting. Well keep in mind that in nature the mantids don't always live. Keeping them in captivity is a way to prevent such casualties and the habitat we place them in is linked with keeping them in captivity.</p><p></p><p>On an scientific note, do you think scientists studying different species of mantids create some elaborate container for them? No. And do you think the mantids are thinking to themselves: "Man I wish I had some more orchid flowers in here."? No. Think before you criticize how people raise their nymphs. Your concern shouldn't be how they raise them. What matters is if the nymphs reach adulthood, breed, and those offspring hatch and the cycle repeats. Making sure no crazy crossbreeding occurs that ruins the culture and that no exotic mantids escape and (though unlikely) start up a population in the wild.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MantidLord, post: 196659, member: 1732"] Not to mention space. Keeping 30+ cannibalistic mantids requires a separate cage for each one. If everyone did what you seem to require, no one would have enough room. Not to mention, having all of that ###### in there with a mantis allows prey to hide and come out later, chancing upon a vulnerable mantis or an oothecae. You say you want a natural type setting. Well keep in mind that in nature the mantids don't always live. Keeping them in captivity is a way to prevent such casualties and the habitat we place them in is linked with keeping them in captivity. On an scientific note, do you think scientists studying different species of mantids create some elaborate container for them? No. And do you think the mantids are thinking to themselves: "Man I wish I had some more orchid flowers in here."? No. Think before you criticize how people raise their nymphs. Your concern shouldn't be how they raise them. What matters is if the nymphs reach adulthood, breed, and those offspring hatch and the cycle repeats. Making sure no crazy crossbreeding occurs that ruins the culture and that no exotic mantids escape and (though unlikely) start up a population in the wild. [/QUOTE]
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