Molting

[Mantisking]

Ok so I have a Chinese Mantis here, and it molted sometime in the middle of the night, looks like the 2 back legs are still stuck 1 is almost out, but the other looks like just will never happen, now from my understanding there is nothing I can for the Mantis correct? If anyone has any information or questions to help me out, please let me know. Thank you so much

 

[massaman]

you can try to help it out but be careful or let it try to let it get out on its own but may end up a mismolt and if its not a adult then any problems it has may be fixed in the next set of molts or such!

 

[Rick]

Nothing you can do to make it normal. It will have messed up legs regardless.

 

[jameslongo]

Raise the humidity next time it's about to moult. Like massaman said, it's going to rectify the problem next moult. It was a tad too dry for it this time.

You can probably squirt the exoskeleton to soften it before attempting to free the mantid's legs. If one is completely stuck, maybe you could trim the exoskeleton around it to make it a bit neater.

Cheers,

James.