Quote Originally Posted by aSnakeLovinBabe View Post
They are smart little buggers... but not nearly intelligent enough to recognize the fact that the snakes are preparing to feed...
You haven't seen what I've seen. He recognizes the commotion and goes rushing toward it, and makes multiple attempts to climb one of the snakes so he can get in the middle of it. And then there was the snatching of a worm piece from the snakes mouth. I think it only took that one time and now he tries to repeat that success every time the snakes get worked up at feeding time. I do make sure he gets something to eat every couple of days so he isn't starving. He doesn't show any signs of aggression toward the snakes at all. He stays out of their way for the most part, unless they are eating that is. When I first got him, I put him in the baby tank and he did try catching one of the babies but they whipped him around and beat the heck out of him, and he never tried again that I know of but later I put him in the adult tank, thinking that's probably safer. He's nowhere near the size of that mantis eating the snake in your video.

It is that time of year and he's fully mature. I had a male and a huge female one year. They mated and the male died a few days later, uneaten. The female laid two egg containers over a period of a week or so, and she died after that. It was late November so yeah, he's near the end of his life.