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<blockquote data-quote="animalexplorer" data-source="post: 157212" data-attributes="member: 1740"><p>Temps 80-85°F. Humidity 60-70% daytime worked out fine for me. The humidity was a little hard to maintain in the daytime as the heat from the bulbs were constantly bringing it down. I was misting 2 times a day one around 12 afternoon and one in the evening about an hour before turning the lights out. Humidity levels varied between 70-80 at night, it wasn't exact but pretty close. I use a enclosed glass terrarium to help stablize the variables. The top has a screen mesh but that was covered with a piece of cardboard with a small hole, to fit a hockey puck halogen light. The light hood houses a repti glo 5.0 UVB bulb which covers the other half but allows air circulation. It worked but I was not always there to mist at the exact time so I'm investing in a ultrasonic humidifier which will be activated by a timer switch.</p><p></p><p>I like Precarious's safety net idea. Somebody else on this forum had a pretty good idea that I ended up using. The terrarium setups that I acquired have these natural looking styrofoam backgrounds. As soon as the mantid started to go through the final molt I selected branches and would poke them into the styrofoam as to create a ladder for the mantids to grab and flip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="animalexplorer, post: 157212, member: 1740"] Temps 80-85°F. Humidity 60-70% daytime worked out fine for me. The humidity was a little hard to maintain in the daytime as the heat from the bulbs were constantly bringing it down. I was misting 2 times a day one around 12 afternoon and one in the evening about an hour before turning the lights out. Humidity levels varied between 70-80 at night, it wasn't exact but pretty close. I use a enclosed glass terrarium to help stablize the variables. The top has a screen mesh but that was covered with a piece of cardboard with a small hole, to fit a hockey puck halogen light. The light hood houses a repti glo 5.0 UVB bulb which covers the other half but allows air circulation. It worked but I was not always there to mist at the exact time so I'm investing in a ultrasonic humidifier which will be activated by a timer switch. I like Precarious's safety net idea. Somebody else on this forum had a pretty good idea that I ended up using. The terrarium setups that I acquired have these natural looking styrofoam backgrounds. As soon as the mantid started to go through the final molt I selected branches and would poke them into the styrofoam as to create a ladder for the mantids to grab and flip. [/QUOTE]
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