because I got ooths from garden center and then went researching decided I wanted more and then found this place for information and I am so glad that I found it
After over a decade of dart frogs and keeping native mantids in the greenhouse and gardens I was buggin for something new.....I probaby read the old thread in this forum for over a yr before buying anything as well.
I was searching for food for my numerous reptiles, and came across mantis place. I bought a ghost and became hooked the moment it snatched a moth out of mid air.
I then joined to ask what instar people thought it was.
Then within that month i had :
5 violin mantids, a ghost mantis, a rhombo sp. , 15 creos
So i guess you could say i was in fact really hooked!