Many thanks. The mantids I'm currently keeping are native to Malaysia with the exception of P. paradoxa and T. sinensis (acquired from US).
That's a beautiful D. desiccata male bro. Even though there are many exotic mantids from all over the world, I think Malaysian species are the most fantastic. Most famous examples would be the H. coronatus and all Deroplatys species. I've had a fascination for them since a small boy. I used to keep jumping spiders when young, one day my dad brought home a tank filled with leaves and twigs and he told me to put one of my spiders inside. I did that and one of the twigs caught and ate my spider. Found out later that it was a Euchomenella sp mantis. Immediately I fell in love with mantids. Although I never ever feed my mantids spiders after that because I love spiders.

For feeders, I'm culturing fruitflies (D. melanogaster & D. hydei), have a big tupperware full of crickets, mealworms and going to start culturing Blue Bottles, Houseflies and B. lateralis soon. The mantids are not really high maintenance. I just feed them once a day or every two days. For nymphs I just give them fruitflies and for the adults crickets, mealworms and wild-caught butterflies when I have the time.

Here's a photo of my setup:

Hey Bro! Nice to see you. Hope that you have a good hatch rate from the ooth. I'll post some pics up soon.

But here's a photo of the Toxodera beieri nymph:

Wow a mantis thread... I love these babies...

this is what i use to have...sadly not anymore. They do make real great pets and nothing much to maintain beside needing a slightly cold temperature and a little more moist.

Glad to see quite a couple of mantis lovers here! That's a nice photo of a very pink Hymenopus coronatus ReBeLLioN! Orchid mantids are very very beautiful and I never get tired of looking at them! Although they're not that difficult to rear, breeding them can be a bit difficult.

Here's a photo of my H. coronatus adults. Male is on the female's back.


H. coronatus connection!


My Theopropus elegans copulating.


Deroplatys lobata.


Connection!