FendersRule
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Anyone have any pictures of what it looks like when Mantids are about to molt?
I usually feed my mantis with tweezers. He's an L6 Spurca, and he's been eating houseflies and butterflies for the past couple weeks. However, since it appears that he is close to molting (I think), I just placed the last fly into the aquarium (it's a 5.5 gallon tank). The fly has been in there for two days, and I just found it laying on the ground dead this afternoon...so the Mantid I suppose wasn't hungry enough to go fetch it.
He's been hanging on the wooden stick for the past couple days that goes from the floor to the top of the aquarium. He could easily walk up to the steel grating at the top of the aquarium if he wanted to, but I guess he prefers the twig for his molt. I'm only guessing he's close to molting due to his buds. Maybe it's normal for Spurca buds to be flared like that:
I usually feed my mantis with tweezers. He's an L6 Spurca, and he's been eating houseflies and butterflies for the past couple weeks. However, since it appears that he is close to molting (I think), I just placed the last fly into the aquarium (it's a 5.5 gallon tank). The fly has been in there for two days, and I just found it laying on the ground dead this afternoon...so the Mantid I suppose wasn't hungry enough to go fetch it.
He's been hanging on the wooden stick for the past couple days that goes from the floor to the top of the aquarium. He could easily walk up to the steel grating at the top of the aquarium if he wanted to, but I guess he prefers the twig for his molt. I'm only guessing he's close to molting due to his buds. Maybe it's normal for Spurca buds to be flared like that:
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