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Food and Feeding
Are surinam or fulvous roaches fine for mantids?
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<blockquote data-quote="agent A" data-source="post: 344385" data-attributes="member: 2948"><p><em>P. spurca </em>are odd. They'll go on hunger strike, but they seem to like maintaining a slim figure (they are my spirit animal haha). Maybe this is why they grow so darn slowly (8 months to reach adulthood!). If they just gorged themselves like other species do, they could reach adulthood in no time, but then again they wouldn't look like twigs anymore!</p><p></p><p>they like a food rotation, but you can't go wrong with flies</p><p></p><p>mantisplace.com is a great place to get fly pupae. with your modest collection of mantises, 100 or so fly pupae a month should suffice. I make a nectar for my flies by mixing 1/4 cup honey, 1/4 cup molasses, 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce together and then thickening it with fructose until it's saltwater taffy texture. then i add 1g per 100mL water and feed that to flies. I also make crested gecko MRP for the flies to feed on</p><p></p><p>I change out the food every other day</p><p></p><p>your <em>H. coronatus </em>should handle houseflies at i3, but the ghosts won't until i4</p><p></p><p>I recommend keeping up with the food sizes. when I reared <em>Galinthias amoena </em>on just houseflies, they produced infertile ooths despite mating. I reckon if I gave them bottleflies from the subadult stage onward, they wouldn't have had this issue. fruitflies are probably not adequate for larger nymphs</p><p></p><p>double shields will eat anything you throw at them</p><p></p><p>I feed my tarantulas a rotation of crickets, roaches, and moths</p><p></p><p>how hot is it where the person is? surinams can take 90F easily!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agent A, post: 344385, member: 2948"] [I]P. spurca [/I]are odd. They'll go on hunger strike, but they seem to like maintaining a slim figure (they are my spirit animal haha). Maybe this is why they grow so darn slowly (8 months to reach adulthood!). If they just gorged themselves like other species do, they could reach adulthood in no time, but then again they wouldn't look like twigs anymore! they like a food rotation, but you can't go wrong with flies mantisplace.com is a great place to get fly pupae. with your modest collection of mantises, 100 or so fly pupae a month should suffice. I make a nectar for my flies by mixing 1/4 cup honey, 1/4 cup molasses, 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce together and then thickening it with fructose until it's saltwater taffy texture. then i add 1g per 100mL water and feed that to flies. I also make crested gecko MRP for the flies to feed on I change out the food every other day your [I]H. coronatus [/I]should handle houseflies at i3, but the ghosts won't until i4 I recommend keeping up with the food sizes. when I reared [I]Galinthias amoena [/I]on just houseflies, they produced infertile ooths despite mating. I reckon if I gave them bottleflies from the subadult stage onward, they wouldn't have had this issue. fruitflies are probably not adequate for larger nymphs double shields will eat anything you throw at them I feed my tarantulas a rotation of crickets, roaches, and moths how hot is it where the person is? surinams can take 90F easily! [/QUOTE]
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