Anybody know of a good, but easy to understand care sheet on orchid mantids? Am so very interested in these!!

Good luck getting some Orchids, they are very hard to come by at the moment.

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I'm not looking to get any right now *wink* I'd like to stick to the easier mantids for a while.

Orchids are normally about. Beautiful but VERY fragile! Keep warm and misted to keep humidity up. They're nice to look at just a shame they don't get very big.

i agree males are tiny and orchids dead easy to get hold of if you know the right ppl and dead easy look after mist every few days i raised most of an ooth this way until i sold them on

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdx2yLgVwc

What temp do you keep them at?

just in a warm area of the house or on top on vivs never used heat mats with mantids and i used to keep alot of species here b4 i got into T's

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdx2yLgVwc

Well, I don't have any vivs (as of now... but want to get a western hognose eventually). Because they are so small, would you say a sweet jar is the best thing to keep them in? I keep the giants in the small exo terras, but I would imagine you'd lose an orchid mantid in one of those!

My male moulted to adult last night (female is a week behind) and I keep them on top of my 3ft viv which has a reptile radiator attached to the inside top and this heats the orchids just fine.

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Thanx for the help, guys! I had read that orchids were quite difficult to keep, but it doesn't sound it at all.