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Heating and Thermoregulation?
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<blockquote data-quote="TisRayMan" data-source="post: 335056" data-attributes="member: 11585"><p>I have seen on the forum setups (posted by Synapze - please let me know if I should cite the post) for the individual mantis in 32oz. plastic specimen cups arrayed and stacked. What I’m wondering is, what is the method for heating a setup like this, with individual containers? I get that you can use a thermostat/hygrometer with the sensor in an empty cup top and center in the stack.</p><p></p><p>Do you heat a setup like this with heat tape, a heat pad underneath, or under a heat lamp? Or is there another method? Should all the cups be kept, for instance, within a large terrarium? How do you keep temperatures consistent and even across the colony, especially from one level of the stack to the other? If that isn’t easy, Is it why you rotate the cups, to spread the variation equally between specimens? I am guessing the mantis needs to be able to thermoregulate, so how does that work?</p><p></p><p>I guess keeping a communal species would be easier in this respect, so I’m just wondering about the less-communal ones. My apologies for asking so many questions lol… and thanks in advance!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TisRayMan, post: 335056, member: 11585"] I have seen on the forum setups (posted by Synapze - please let me know if I should cite the post) for the individual mantis in 32oz. plastic specimen cups arrayed and stacked. What I’m wondering is, what is the method for heating a setup like this, with individual containers? I get that you can use a thermostat/hygrometer with the sensor in an empty cup top and center in the stack. Do you heat a setup like this with heat tape, a heat pad underneath, or under a heat lamp? Or is there another method? Should all the cups be kept, for instance, within a large terrarium? How do you keep temperatures consistent and even across the colony, especially from one level of the stack to the other? If that isn’t easy, Is it why you rotate the cups, to spread the variation equally between specimens? I am guessing the mantis needs to be able to thermoregulate, so how does that work? I guess keeping a communal species would be easier in this respect, so I’m just wondering about the less-communal ones. My apologies for asking so many questions lol… and thanks in advance! [/QUOTE]
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