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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sk8erkho" data-source="post: 23942" data-attributes="member: 738">Really sorry to hear about your mantis, Butterfly. I remember your first posts about her and that very same pic which I thought was one of the coolest things I had ever seen. But, I know the feeling. Though my little one I had to put down two nights ago was only a few days old. It got into a fight with one of the others which I managed to salvage from the ooth with a majority of bad eggs. It was just laying there. I looked at it through the magnifying glass as it was soooo small and I could still see it's antennae moving as well as it's mouth. I would tap it a bit to see if I could get it to get up as it was totally in tack. I could not spot the injury so I fed it some water on my finger. It drank. I gave it a few hours and it never moved from that spot. Hours went by still and no movement. I went to pick it up and it began to struggle a bit and then just stopped. Still, antennae and mouth movement, though. It was as if it were paralyzed as it would still drink a bit from my finger. Next day, still the same so I put it in the freezer no matter how small it was I didn't want to just allow it to  continue to lie there suffering, you know. It happens, you get attached, still!We do what we can to help them along!!!!!!  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite15" alt=":cry:" title="Crying    :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" />Best Regards,Good luck with the ooth,Khori</blockquote>

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