mismoults

[Ralphys_Mantids]

They happen quite often. Any concerns?

 

[mantiseater]

for me low humidity and bad moulting location are the biggest causes of mis-molts

 

[happy1892]

For my S. carolina nymphs it was too much misting that made them mismolt and no misting they molted fine.

 

[PlayingMantis]

I like to make sure my mantids get a good drink before molting.

 

[Aryia]

A lot of things can cause mismolts. Low/high humidity, low/high heat, stress, bad location, general wrong husbandry which leads to weak mantises. Depending on how finicky the species is even the lack of correct angled branches will cause deformities. So without knowing your setup and what type of mismolt it's very hard to tell what's going on, but if mismolts are frequent then there's definitely something going wrong. Usually I get about a 5-20% mismolt rate depending on the species during the first molt, after that mismolts become a lot rarer.

 

[Crazy4mantis]

I've actually never had real mismolt, just bent wings and such.

 

[rickyveloz33]

My cousin had a mismolt because it molted in the wrong place.:/

 

[soundspawn]

Falling is obviously a huge problem - if you see it sometimes you can get them set back up but if they fall overnight... it's usually bad. Humidity seems to be controversial, but in my experience if you are maintaining the humidity of the room they are in, additional spraying puts the humidity in their habitat way too high.

I keep the room at about 75-82F (largely depending on the location of the habitat within the room) with 50% humidity and only mist the more rainforest-y species (or the occasional droplets for drinking). Anything more water-wise seems to correlate with higher mismolt rates.