Any recommendations for an immediate mantis keeper?

[spiderlover123]

Hello! As the title says I'm a mantis keepers who's had quite a few mantises and I am now ready for an immediate species. Any recommendations?

 

[Poonjab]

With the immediate species. You have to get them ASAP.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Hello! As the title says I'm a mantis keepers who's had quite a few mantises and I am now ready for an immediate species. Any recommendations?

I assume you mean intermediate. An intermediate species would be Pseudoxyops, Orthodera, Miomantis, Deroplatys, all super cool species. Out of curiosity, what species have you kept exactly?

 

[Matts inverts]

Do you mean more colors or harder to care for. I always recommend flower or orchid mantis but you might have worked with these.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Do you mean more colors or harder to care for. I always recommend flower or orchid mantis but you might have worked with these.

Orchids are by no means intermediate.

 

[spiderlover123]

Haha sorry guys auto correct screwed me over. What I meant is an intermediate species that could pick up for a reasonable price and that is relatively interesting to look at. I have cared for the spiny flower, the Chinese, and the Indian flower mantis. Would this make me good enough to get an intermediate species? I'm a bit new to mantis keeping but I've kept a few of them. My only real gripe with them is that they die out so quickly. Such a shame.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Haha sorry guys auto correct screwed me over. What I meant is an intermediate species that could pick up for a reasonable price and that is relatively interesting to look at. I have cared for the spiny flower, the Chinese, and the Indian flower mantis. Would this make me good enough to get an intermediate species? I'm a bit new to mantis keeping but I've kept a few of them. My only real gripe with them is that they die out so quickly. Such a shame.

Nope, keep a few more beginner species like H. membranacea, Sphodromantis, and Ghosts and you’ll be set.

 

[spiderlover123]

Nope, keep a few more beginner species like H. membranacea, Sphodromantis, and Ghosts and you’ll be set.

I see. Thank you for the guidance! Unrelated but which species of mantises are the most communal? I was thinking about this due to some of my friends talking about there m. balfouri colonies and I was curious if there were any equivalents in the mantis family.

 

[spiderlover123]

With the immediate species. You have to get them ASAP.

LOL. Auto correct is the worst.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

I see. Thank you for the guidance! Unrelated but which species of mantises are the most communal? I was thinking about this due to some of my friends talking about there m. balfouri colonies and I was curious if there were any equivalents in the mantis family.

No mantis is truly communal, there is always a good risk of cannibalism. I recommend against communals of any kind because they can also disturb one another while molting.

 

[spiderlover123]

No mantis is truly communal, there is always a good risk of cannibalism. I recommend against communals of any kind because they can also disturb one another while molting.

I see. Thank you for your guidance once again haha