How To care Solygia sulcatifroms
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spawn
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I keep 'em at room temperature, and they need to be fed very often. Misted daily. Not communal one bit -- the most ferocious species I have ever kept. The female attacked a phasmid I had in the same cage with it temporarily, and let's just say the female is about 5" right now (about three molts away from adulthood), and the phasmid was 33% longer than it. It was ridiculously loud. I separated them in time. Will accept large prey (proportionate to their size, they will accept bigger prey than other mantids, considering they are a type of grass mantis). Also has a cool threat display (similar movement to Idolomantis, but not even close to as spectacular, obviously). Will jump and scamper if frightened as well.
Birdfly
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Hi, I find keeping them is fairly standard for a tropical mantis (temp & humidity). They are not specialists in the way I diabolica is and will happily take flying or crawling insect prey. The only thing i've had to change is the size of there terrarium as the standard plastic sweet jar would not give enough height for moulting in late /larger instars.
spawn
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Thanks for the clarification Christian, which is why I worded it 'this is how I keep 'em'. I should have figured you'd probably know about their care. What country do they occur in? I have been making sure to keep them moist, and when I had bought them I couldn't find any literature on them, so I kept them under a halogen lamp (actually the cage is under another plastic bin), so it's closer to 84 degrees F (29 C) in there, and I mist it daily. I guess I guessed pretty accurately.
