Orchid Praying Mantis Enclosure

To house your pet praying mantis you need an enclosure filled with appropriate substrate and some surfaces or branches for climbing and hanging.

Orchid praying mantis enclosure. Instead the praying mantis keeper must be willing to think creatively and to reuse other containers to create a suitable cage for their mantids. Mantids are small and do not produce much waste. Please note if you would like to buy ootheca of the. We use natural lamps to provide additional lighting and make sure the entire tank is well lit all day.

Hymenopus coronatus orchid mantis pseudocreobotra wahlbergii spiny flower mantis hierodula membranacea giant asian mantis phyllocrania paradoxa ghost mantis sibylla pretiosa cryptic mantis raptrix sp peruvian ant mantis acanthops erosula peruvian dead leaf mantis gongylus gongylodes. The enclosure of your mantis hardly needs any cleaning. This will ensure that it has plenty of space to walk around and to shed its skin molt. Read morepraying mantis cages housing.

We prefer to keep our praying mantises in living vivariums with live plants and microfauna springtails and isopods but mantises can also be kept in temporary enclosures with fake plants and no substrate or with just a paper towel or some other kind of substrate at the bottom of the enclosure. However if you choose to take this route you must be very diligent about cleaning the enclosure and replacing the substrate once a week. Praying mantis are still quite an unusual pet so you shouldn t be surprised to hear that you local pet store is unlikely to sell specialist praying mantis cages. Without microfauna to help keep waste like frass bug poop.

When cleaning the enclosure of your mantis just remove all substrate and wash the inside of the enclosure with hot water. Make sure to remove any half eaten prey items to prevent them from becoming smelly. The orchid mantis hymenopus coronatus should be kept in an enclosure that is at least 3 times as tall as the mantis is long and at least 2 times as wide as the mantis is long. Here are a few updated photos of the orchid mantis females i have at the moment slightly smaller than sub adult about l6.

These won t be for sale but kept as breeding stock. This guarantees a seemless fit and high quality finish. In this article. This is because as a adult females can get up to 3 inches long while males can be less than 1 inch long as an adult.

In my video today i show you guys how i set up his enclo. Lighting the praying mantis setup to light the enclosure we would usually use exo terra s matching canopy. As amny of you guys know i got an orchid mantis at the reptile expo that i went to a few weeks back.