Giant Rainforest Mantis (i7) acting weird after slight mismolt…

[opalgibbons]

My girl fell during her molt a few weeks ago and her arm shifted slightly out of place. She was been able to get around just fine and still catch food afterwards but for the last six or so days she’s been avoiding eating and ive caught her just moving down to the bottom of her enclosure and resting her bad arm on the ground, similarly to how i found her during her last molt when she fell. It’s been roughly 3 weeks since her last molt, so i thought she’d molt again and her arm would be fixed, but it’s been almost an week and she’s still unmolted and refusing food. I recently switched her from red runner roaches to dubia roaches so i’m thinking maybe the food refusal is because of that? Though she’s eaten the dubias before and is refusing mealworms now too so i don’t know… Should I be concerned?

 

[Mystymantis]

Is she refusing all foods? She may be preparing to molt again but refusing food for a long time seems a bit odd. Try feeding easier prey maybe? Feed her a bottle fly or moth and see if she eats those. Maybe because her arms are slightly crooked she is having trouble grabbing the roaches.