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So I got this mantis from a friend 2 days ago because his brother didn't want to take care of it anymore. It seemed totally fine when I took this picture around 3, then at 3:30 it was kind of on its back propped up on its tail (it did this while in the bucket we used to transport it to my house) and then at about 4 it was doing this and has remained completely still. It never climbed inside of it's PVC hide, it just got in between the pipe and the glass where you see and stayed there since I put it in. This is the same tank, hide, sand, rock, filters and everything it was in previously. I got the whole set up and all we did was drain the water, move it, and put the water back in. Is this just a stress thing they do or is it likely dead? I've never had one before and wanted to make sure it was taken care of but I don't know where I could have gone wrong. Sorry I couldn't take a better pic, my phone doesn't do low light so well