Mantis are awesome, I'm definitely going to get into them soon, like Patrick said they seem to be a perfect compliment to chams. Definitely got to distinguish between the feeders and the pets though haha
This is one of the best threads on this whole site. Spectacular.
I think it has to do with Europe being much closer to Africa and not having an ocean in between, which would make importing easier. I don't know though, I would also be interested to hear from someone who does.