I'm getting a Praying Mantis!
- Thread starter GhostShrimpMan
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They're really pretty easy to keep... you can keep young ones in a clear plastic cup just put some netting over the top... give a few branches for them to climb on... water bowl with natural sponge... you can feed the big ones pet store crickets, if they're too small for that you can give them wingless fruit flies, if you look around you can probably find some for sale.. they like a day time temp of 75F, can be dropped to 72F or so at night. Good luck man.
thanks for all the help 
oh and i was wondering how much the store bought grasshoppers or crickets cost?
oh and i was wondering how much the store bought grasshoppers or crickets cost?
from my research flyin insects work best. check out the site that is on the previous page. it is really helpfull
GhostShrimpMan;4218740; said:thanks for all the help
oh and i was wondering how much the store bought grasshoppers or crickets cost?
Get the crickets online.....for about a year I was being ripped off at my local pet shop. Each large cricket was 10 cents, I normally bought 100 for $10. I thought this wasn't that bad....but online I found out you can buy crickets as cheap as 500 crickets for $16. If you do the math, I bought 100 crickets every week for a year. 3,650 crickets my monitor ate a year for about $365.I could have bought 10,000 adult crickets for $160. This is off a great website:
http://armstrongcrickets.com/shop/index.php?cPath=61_73
Pazzoman;4220915; said:
Buying 500 crickets at a time makes no sense when the praying mantis would only eat one to two a day. The online websites only sell in bulk too. Ghost your better off buying a dozen a week at your local pet store.
just figured id show u what im doing. simple yet really cool.
plus some pics of the little guy with some prey
plus some pics of the little guy with some prey
those r some cool sites and they r one of the coolest bugs. but i just seen one of them for 50 bucks thats a lil much for a bug
