keri
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Just wondering if it would be ok for my L4ish chinese mantids to go one day without food if I were to go away? They are housed seperately and I'm feeding them like 20 hydei FFs a day/each.
It will be O.K. Just tell them that you missed them upon your return.Just wondering if it would be ok for my L4ish chinese mantids to go one day without food if I were to go away? They are housed seperately and I'm feeding them like 20 hydei FFs a day/each.
*giggle* Shall I bring them back souvenirs? (Or maybe just tiny crickets if I can get to a pet store)It will be O.K. Just tell them that you missed them upon your return.
Thanks JoeTiny crickets can get frustrating and there will always be escapees. What I find works is to have small cups of egg-carton and take one and put it in a tall vial, then use long forceps to grab the crickets. Any that are left over just get dumped into the container. I have a couple L4 Chinese as well (they are babies of my first pet mantis Emerald who I had last fall and laid two egg cases) but I haven't fed crickets to any of them yet.
Another tip, don't spray the crickets if you feed them fresh greens. That gives them plenty of moisture. If you do spray them, it gets icky inside there :s
I have a habit of feeding my mantises every day, but I also tend to be overly cautious and I don't feed them big prey. I feed the Chinese mantises fruit flies still, and count out how many they get.
Also, depending on where you got your Chinese mantises from, you might even have some siblings of my Chinese. I sent 15 to Peter, the ones I have left from the second hatching are about L3. The ones that I am keeping I might name after characters in Charlotte's Web.
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