Argh, any advice?

[Mantis_Whisper]

I'm trying to mate them again tonight.

I've thrown about five bluebottles in there, spritz the mantises and kept it hot. (My room is boiling! )

It's near nighttime, but I guess I'll be keeping them together for the next week to see how it goes. It's really depressing though, she already laid her first ooth, completely infertile.

I'll keep you updated, and I will provide pictures too!

 

[mrblue]

I'm trying to mate them again tonight. I've thrown about five bluebottles in there, spritz the mantises and kept it hot. (My room is boiling! )

It's near nighttime, but I guess I'll be keeping them together for the next week to see how it goes. It's really depressing though, she already laid her first ooth, completely infertile.

I'll keep you updated, and I will provide pictures too!

sounds like youre doing it right. don't worry about the infertile ooth though. if you check my blog, i had an adult female ready and willing to go for quite a while, but the male was subadult and taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r to moult to adult. he moulted to adult finally on the 24th april. however he had taken so long that she just went ahead and layed her first infertile ootheca two days after (like yours, she was slightly older than a month as adult).

it was slightly mis-shapen, and the long bit this species has on their oothecae was barely there, just a little stump. she also started calling after laying the ootheca. however, i gave the male about a week or so to get ready, and the following week they mated. she has since gone on to lay 6 fertile oothecae (her most recent this morning) of fine size, and the 2 that have hatched so far have hatched around 30 nymphs each. so don't let it get you down that she has dropped her first dud, if they mate ok she can still produce a sizeable new generation for you!

GOOD LUCK!

 

[Mantis_Whisper]

Well. It's been ages since I put up this query, and well... I have no idea what so ever if my ghosts mated. (Incubating ooths anyway.)

So far I've seen a mounting with one male, but no connection, that fellow died while I was away for a week.

However during that time period my subadult molted . I decided to throw him in with the female so they get used to eachother. (The cage she lives in used to be home to all five; they were only separated when they hit adulthood.) I came back later and the male had mounted the female. He's only nine days into adulthood and already rearing to go; I would guess. He's been mounted on her for three hours, no connection so far, but I will be checking in on them every hour or so. They're roaming my room, just in case my female feels hungry after he takes off.

I'll post some pictures when my camrea decides not to die on me again.

-Andrea