Hey beasties! In this video I was nominated for the #bettercarechallenge, which is basically all about taking one little thing you already do for your animals and leveling it up—enclosure upgrades, full redos, going bioactive, anything that improves their care. I was nominated by Lyssa’s Lizards (seriously, she’s so sweet and takes amazing care of her animals), and even though I’ve got a ton of bigger projects I want to do, life is a little wild right now—so I chose a simple but meaningful upgrade. I move my tiny praying mantis (she’s still a little neonate) out of her deli cup and into a real enclosure: an Exo Terra 12x12x12 that I already had. She technically could’ve stayed in the deli cup for another couple months, but y’all know me—I like to go a little extra when I can. I set it up with paper towel to help hold humidity and make cleanups easy, added cork bark and plants from her old setup, and made her a climbing stick with a zip-tied leaf. I keep it pretty basic on purpose so she doesn’t get “lost” in there and so I can still easily feed her, and I’ll add more as she grows.