Birdfly
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No mate, imo its still cruel but it can be seen by any body else as unnessasary suffering as a mantis doesnt kill quickly, the fish would suffocate (suffering?) before being completely eaten but before it expires its been slowly minced.So is the problem the fish anymore?
It doesn't matter wether its a fish a mouse a bird or a snake, its all unnessasary sufferering because the mantis would happily eat a dead one if offered (meat on mouth parts) or better still what they have evolved to mostly eat, insects, and they do perfectly well on this, imo there is absolutely no difference between insect feeders and vertibrate meat and, again in my opinion i'd go so far as to say insects are better especially if gut loaded with other goodies for a week or so prior too offering.
Reptiles are different, they, if offered the correct prey size and if live food is all they'll take for what ever reason, kill much more quickly an efficiently than a mantis could care about.
Idolomantis, when you say "the fish is already dead" do you mean now or when the mantis caught and started eating it, as when i saw it, it was swimming and wriggling.
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