Haha, like I said, I think mating mantids are in conspiracies against us.
My female was not interested in more than 1 cricket the last couple days. I hald expect her to grab this male before he is done. So far she is still not interested in a cricket, but then again she is busy ... lol .... If the male makes it away I will offer her another cricket.Haha, like I said, I think mating mantids are in conspiracies against us.
ahhhh .. thanks rick .. i probably would have asked it in a thread of it;s own before i did it ,,, but thanks much for that tip .. i guess it will be VERY interesting to have 2 species going at one time ... will make it easier to see which does better for me though ... if i get too many asian ooth's i may try putting one in the fridge just to see .... it's not like i can deal with 800 baby mantis at this point in time ... though i would do like you and leave them all in one tank until 3rd .. the strong would survive and weed out inferior mantis ....
Just sell the ooth. That is a tropical species and their ooths have no foam to protect them. They have a covering almost like a dry paper or something. Right now I am incubating four ooths all of different species. You will want to keep them together as it would be very time consuming to seperate and feed that many nymphs. I don't think I even have enough containers for all of them.
ohh i was talking about the other species i already ordered from ian .. the Africans ... 2 species going at once is a likelyhood ... it will just be a smaller number of each species that make the final cut i guess .... as far as selling the extra ooths ... sounds good on paper ... locating a buyer is another thing .. hehehe ....
Post it on here and it will sell. I have never had trouble finding someone to buy. Good luck.
Not sure, I got them both as adults about 3 weeks ago ....
I wouldn't bother with the pinheads. Order you some fly cultures now. Get them going way ahead of time and keep the cultures going.
let us know what happens cause im breeding these..im months away but il be interested to see what happens...good luck,Still no ooth, which is not a big surprise to me. Last night I took the male out and offered him a cricket which he was not interested in. I let him crawl on my hand, but he kept looking around as if he wanted to jump off. I thought he might be looking for that female, so I put him on the 2 1/2 foot tree she has been on for almost a week now and he locked onto her.I put the tree in my half bath last night figuring he could easily get away from her. This morning he is doing it again with her. I tried to offer her a cricket and she would have nothing to do with it. Just that claw back get away from me thing they do when they dont want something.
I figure what the heck, in the wild he or another mantis would probably go for her.
Just an update to up my post count and say Happy thanksgiving to my US friends.
