Another hatching

[Rick]

This time bark mantids. This was from a deformed ooth that I was going to throw out. 56 days.......

Always give those ooths a try.

 

[revmdn]

Way cool Rick.

 

[ismart]

Nice! I always hold onto deformed ooths just incase.

 

[Rick]

There ended up being about 25.

 

[ismart]

There ended up being about 25.

Thats a good turnout.

 

[charleyandbecky]

Nice! This gives me hope that the odd-looking ooth I have will hatch.

 

[mantisfart2]

Have you kept these before? I found they do better if you individually cup them rick, i tried keeping them in small groups but had heavy losses, as you probably have already seen they are really skittish and set of running if a sibling or ff touches them. Good luck with them.

 

[Katnapper]

Best of luck with them, Rick. I failed with these after my ooth hatched. It hatched about the same number, but after about 4 days, all but one I think died overnight. I think I misted them too much. Poor little things... it's a shame they died due to my ignorance. The only bright side is that I'll know better next time.

 

[sufistic]

That's awesome, congrats Rick.

 

[khabirun]

Congrats man.

 

[Rick]

I have six others that are L4 or so and they are doing great. I killed about six of these new ones today. They seem very susceptible to drowning. There was a bit of water at the bottom and they had gotten stuck in it.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Good luck with them babies, give em a life preserver, got it straight off a navy man!

 

[Colorcham427]

This time bark mantids. This was from a deformed ooth that I was going to throw out. 56 days.......

Always give those ooths a try.

Way to not throw out the ugly..deformed duckling lol. This is awesome man, hope all goes well with them, and please post pix of them with their progress!

 

[yen_saw]

Congrate Rick. Yeah the hatchling can drown easily becasue they have problem upright themselves once tripping over, but i believe you have plenty of moss as substrate that will help.

 

[Rick]

Congrate Rick. Yeah the hatchling can drown easily becasue they have problem upright themselves once tripping over, but i believe you have plenty of moss as substrate that will help.

I have been using the paper towels and I really overwatered. Many of them came out fine. I moved them to a larger enclosure with tons of places to hang from. Will feed them today for the first tiem.