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I bought these guys a month or so ago from mantisplace.com, and they are doing great. Here are some pics

Wow, those are very cool! How do you care for them?

i have mine in an Exo Terra invertebrate kit which costs about 70$, for lighting i have a small repti-glow light and a incandescent for heat

The habitat requirements are

Food: flying insects, crickets

Temperature: Day: 80-90 F Night: 65-75F

Humidity: 40-50%

I use the coconut husk substrate that came in the kit, i also have some foliage in the tank and a twig or two so they can molt, the most important thing is to make sure the container is at least twice the length so it can molt successfully, for feeding when small feed them fruit flies from the fruitflycompany its kinda expensive but they love em! then move on to moths when you think they can handle it.

Very nice, i love Mantis, specially the green ones!

ya me too, mine are straw colored, but the same species can be blue green to green. I had one that was blue green, but unfortunately he was cannibalized
by my biggest one, by the way don't listen when they say they're communal, only way they'd be communal is if you had a buffet in there.

Oh aren't those beautiful?! I would ADORE the opportunity to keep mantis'! Thank you for sharing and for the care info, too!

Wow those are gorgeous, do the adult specimens have any cool features, or do they just stay that cool ghostly grey?

my adult looks like this

after these im gearing up to get an orchid mantis

newbie14 wrote:after these im gearing up to get an orchid mantis

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I saw that one and thought it looked spectacular!