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Mantid Care Sheets
Here you can find some care sheets of all different species of mantids. These are not very big care sheets but they have just enough info to keep your mantids alive and healthy.
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Orchid Mantis (hymenopus coronatus) Care Sheet
orchid mantids should be kept in a tank with a heat mat,they need higher temperature than most other mantids, 25-30C should be fine, as for humidity,80-90%. This is truely one of the most beautiful mantids in the world. Adult sizes range from 30-60mm, males are half the siz of the females. Feeding this mantis is alittle harder than normal, this is not like most other mantids where they can simply fed on crickets. The orchid mantis must be fed on moths, flies, butterflies and other pollinating insects, more of its natural food. For the winter you can feed them on some waxworms and you can wait for some of the waxworms to become moths or you can buy fly maggots and after about a week of keeping them in room temperature the larvae will turn to flies, as in the summer all you need is a net and you go to the park and catch all sorts of flying, pollinating insects. Breeding this species is a whole nother story, You need to get a hold of 2 different oothecas because the males grow fast and become adult before the female, it will take the males 6 molts to become adult and the female must take 8 molts, by the time your male is ready to mate, the female will be too young and when she is ready the male will have most likely died. You can increase the temperature of the female and feed her more so she can grow faster , you then need to reduce the males temperature and feed him less so he can grow slower and then you may have them as adult at the same time, to me this is too risky, i'd just get 2 seperate oothecas or get a hold of 2 specimens, younger male and a older female by 2 molts so they can molt to adult pretty much the same time.
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Spinny Flower Mantis (pseudocreobotra ocellata) Care Sheet
This species should be fed on prey thats 1/2 its size.Mostly Moths,flies and other flying insects. This species can get up to 30mm-40mm for males and females can get from 45mm-55mm. This mantis should be housed in a tank with alot of greenery and twigs. Their should be enough room in hight for your mantis to hang and shed its skin. Spray the tank daily to get the mantids desirable temperature which should be round 60%-70%. As for temperature, i reccomend having a heat mat to get the temperature 25C for the night and 30C in the day. You can mate these mantids after 2 weeks of adulthood but i would wait until 3 eeks, because it sems that the younger you breed the mantis in adulthood, the faster it dies. After mating, 1 day-1week after, the female will lay her first ootheca and a few days later lay more. The best temperature and humidity for the ootheca is around 55% and like 30C. While keeping the temperature and humidity as it says above, the ootheca should hatch in a month-month and a half. Its best if you seperate each ootheca so you dont have 100s in 1 tank, after they hatch you can feed them on the 2nd on fruit flies you can buy online.
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Dead Leaf Mantis ( deroplatys dessicata) Care Sheet
The dead leaf mantis should be housed in a tank and should have dead leafs and twigs in the tank so the mantis can feel camouflaged and protected. The females grow to 125mm-135mm while males frow to 70mm-75mm. The mantids are best with 70-75% of humidity and 20-25C is best for this mantis and this should be achieved by using a heat mat. When you pair them up for mating, be sure to keep an eye on them because the female can eat the male if she is still hungry so its best to stuff them up with food right before introducing them together, a technique used to help mantids breed is, grab the male and put your hand behind the female and when the male is ready he will jump on to the females back and stay their till he's ready to mate and after mating he will make a leap for life away from the female, this is when your suppost to take him out of the tank.
Chinese Mantis (tenodera aridifolia sinensis) Care Sheet
Chinese mantids are very easy to keep, they are also common in the USA. The are best kept in room temperature to ensure nice healthy adults, these mantids are quite big compared to other mantids, unlike flower mantids, the chinese mantis has no problem eating crickets so you can go to the pet store to buy crickets and during summer you can go and catch insects in your backyard as a food source, as nymphs they start off with ruit flies or pinhead crickets, either one, doesnt matter, the chinese mantis hatchlings are large enough to tackle pin head crickets. They take a few months to become adult, between 3-4 months. This was the first mantis i ever had and there's no problem i had with them.
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Egyptian Mantis (miomantis paykulii) Care Sheet
The Miomantis Paykulli is a medium sized mantis, it grows to about 30-40mm. The cool thing about this mantis is that you can keep a few together in 1 tank as these mantids dont have a high cannibalism rate. They are easy to keep and breed, a good beginner mantis. A ootheca can hold up to 20-60 nymphs, these mantids should be fed on fruit flies, the temperature should be kept at 20-30C, as for humidity, 60-70% is perfect. The females are slighlty larger and bulkier than the males which are more slim.They are from Egypt as their name indicates it. Their color ranges from light green to a straw like color. They should be fed on, flies, moths and other insect you can catch or buy, Anyone who is a beginner and wants a easy,cheap priced mantis should get this one. Also, this species will eat anything that crawls, other mantids wont eat ants, stick bugs ect, this mantis wont have a problem with them.
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