had 11 remaining on delivery. the rest died im guessing from exposure to mold because i didn't ventilate their containers, and from ants that i tried to feed them.
elmantis hatched from an ooth into a container with a pool of water at the bottom. some drowned. i learned to use substrate and...
being new to orchids is precisely why i am starting with a large group 🤠and asking for help here
i began keeping mantises a few months ago. got 1 paradoxa left from my initial purchase of 15. got 2 ooth hatches of elmantis, i think half of them drowned or starved so far, we'll see if usps gets...
I will want to rear them with high survival rate and breed them later. I will need some means of regulating temperature and staggering growth so that the same breeding group can be used to make more.
tried that, ordered the culture from josh's frogs and it was doa. i made a topic about it. any other solutions? i have all the stuff i need to keep the culture going after i get a starter, excelsior, containers, repashy superfly...
need something to feed my breeding group of 10x L2-L4 p. paradoxa so i don't have to manually forage for food. i would prefer something simple to culture for myself.
there's a lot of mantis turds on the bottom of my containers. is this a concern? would a substrate assist with this? do i need to clean the enclosures out?
also: the fruit fly culture i bought was DOA. these guys don't need to be fed more than a couple times a week, yeah?