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<blockquote data-quote="Teamonger" data-source="post: 305583" data-attributes="member: 9511"><p>With Chinese and I assume Carolina as well temperatures below optimal (80) will at worse mildly stunt your mantis's growth/molting schedule. With some species breeders actually purposefully use this fact to hold back the shorter lived males so they will come to maturity when the females are ready and not die before getting a shot at matting.</p><p></p><p>I have one of my Chinese mantises at work as my desk buddy currently and the only negative effect the lower temperature in here seems to have is that he molts a bit behind the rest of the brood at home in the temperature controlled bug room. He is otherwise healthy, active, happy, and fat.</p><p> Similarly a friend of mine who had one of my first hatch of mantises had her female molt WAY behind (like over a month) all of mine as her house is colder. That female is still alive and about to lay her first ooth.</p><p></p><p>So long as you are not throwing them outside in the winter (I once almost lost a mantis to a 10 minute ride in a car I did not heat up first) you should be fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teamonger, post: 305583, member: 9511"] With Chinese and I assume Carolina as well temperatures below optimal (80) will at worse mildly stunt your mantis's growth/molting schedule. With some species breeders actually purposefully use this fact to hold back the shorter lived males so they will come to maturity when the females are ready and not die before getting a shot at matting. I have one of my Chinese mantises at work as my desk buddy currently and the only negative effect the lower temperature in here seems to have is that he molts a bit behind the rest of the brood at home in the temperature controlled bug room. He is otherwise healthy, active, happy, and fat. Similarly a friend of mine who had one of my first hatch of mantises had her female molt WAY behind (like over a month) all of mine as her house is colder. That female is still alive and about to lay her first ooth. So long as you are not throwing them outside in the winter (I once almost lost a mantis to a 10 minute ride in a car I did not heat up first) you should be fine. [/QUOTE]
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