What do you do if u get 100 babies from an ooth
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PrayingMantisPets
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ill buy the ones you dont need ill buy then off your hands :shifty: . 
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soundspawn
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Inevitably some will die off, but you can control that to an extent. Many people just accept that nature is a for those first weeks and let everyone live communally until L3-L5 (varies with species). Others will separate them early on. Honestly though unless you are dealing with really aggressive species, communal living for the first few instars has very little cannibalism... like maybe five per hundred, and something is usually wrong with the eaten (crippled, etc).
Even if you separate them at birth some will not survive, as the first molt can be problematic.
Digger
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Some die in infancy. Some are cannibalized (this is an aggressive sp.). You can get 70 deli cups and raise each, or try to sell them. Or freeze them and toss them out. Or use them as feeders.
As others mentioned, some will die off. You will never get all of them to adulthood. Depending on the species you may want to attempt separating all of them a few days after hatching. For more common species I just keep them all together until I have a number I can easily manage.
aesculpius
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I keep them all in the same cage and feed them normally. Only the fittest survive and a battle royal takes place. The carnage can be astounding depending on the species. Keep in mind that starting around L3 but especially by L5 you'll have almost only females left as the males are generally noticably smaller by that point (depending the species).
Cannibalism is very minimal until L3/L4 for all species if you keep them fed regularly and don't overcrowd them and provide a lot of surface area for each nymph to claim as their own. There will always be some losses especially going from L1 to L2, only the strongest and healthiest survive in nature which is a good thing.
