Death Shrimp99
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Would your mantis live longer if you got it small or big?
Big or small Mantis?
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Mantis the Menace
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BIG mantis
BIG mantis
If you got the bigger one it would probaly live longer.
BIG mantis
If you got the bigger one it would probaly live longer.
Death Shrimp99
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I'm not sure because a small one would have more time to live before he dies of old age but a big one would have less chance of dieing from molting.
Gonodactylus
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Difficult question. Small individuals will molt more frequently and therefore are subject to more problems associated with molting. On the other hand, if you have a good system and the animal is living in a "natural setting", the small animal certainly will have the potential of living longer. Practically, I have better luck with large O. scyllarus, but some other gonodactylids such as N. bredini, G. mutatus, G. chiragra and P. ciliata do well when collected small.
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