What kind of mantis choose?

[Spiderling LT]

Hi all,
I will start growing mantids, and I have quastion, what kind of mantis is the best for biginer?
That she will look nice and big? And needless of a lot of heating? Example 22-25 C?
I hawe this type of food for them: crickets, roches, mealworms, zoofobus and drosophilas.
What you can suggest? Maby some of Africa spp?
And how you suggest heating them? I hawe heating cables.
Where I can put the cable, on the wall or on the bottom?
Thanks, and sorry for my bad english

 

[Jesse607]

Any Hierodula spp. or Sphodromantis spp. are good large beginner's species. Just be sure they have molted 2 or more times.

 

[Spiderling LT]

Any Hierodula spp. or Sphodromantis spp. are good large beginner's species. Just be sure they have molted 2 or more times.

Thanks, what about food is good, what I hawe?

 

[Dark Raptor]

Yes. I feed my Sphodromantis gastrica crickets, Tenebrio molitor and small roaches like Nauphoeta cinerea. Zophobas are too large (and maybe dangerous) for them.

 

[roach dude]

the best type off mantis for begginer are the sphodromantis spp. becuse there easy to look after and u dont need to keep them at some sertain fussy humidity or temp but with the more pretty and cool flower mantises u do. yay im going to get a mantis soon but it still hasnt came in from the order i ordered it befor xmas and i still havent got it grrrrrr i cant wait till i get it (it will be a sphodromantis spp.)