Rhombodera basalis pictures

aftershock

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Hey! This is my freshly molted Rhombodera basalis(Giant green shield mantis).
 

Steven

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at the first 2 pictures the neon-blue colors come out very well,...
is it true that you can influence the colors by putting a colored paper within their tank?
not an entire colorchange but as i heard you can bring some more blue in your mantis by putting a bluepaper at the wall of his enclosure,....

anyhow,.... great pictures of a great species:D
 

aftershock

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Yes they do have great color. I will try to put a blue paper in there to check if it gets more blue. This is my only mantis, but I really love them. Gotta get more of them!
 

Valael

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Is there a brown mantis that looks similiar to that one? (Wide bodied, I mean)
 

Steven

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i guess you mean "deroplatys" species (deadleaf mantis),....
they have also a shield but totally different from this specie.
 

wayne the pain

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nice mantid, very nice mantid i have sp too, great mantid have you bred this sp?
 
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