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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reptilia5" data-source="post: 266816" data-attributes="member: 7675"><p>I am now down to 8 mantises from about 40 due to cannibalism,bad molts and other reasons I have never quite figured out since they just seem to drop dead without warning. I would like to breed the mantises I have left but I also know their are no guarantees that will happen. I do get nervous with each molt and have a tendency to watch it all the way through if it is happening when I am awake and be something of a cheer-leader (but obviously the mantis could care less). I am attached to my mantises and want to see them die at a ripe old age,but it is not the same attachment like I have to my Dumeril's boa. I can get other oothecae very easily but another snake that I have cared for for almost 4 years is a different story. I would say at this point in time I have been about 20% successful. By the end of summer I will know concrete how successful I have been in raising mantises. Thanks for posting this great topic. It has given me something new to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>