Carausiuis morosus health problem

[gadunka888]

:detective:

Recentley all my juvenile male stick insects( the females and adult males are okay) have died almost overnight. their abdomen turns balck and looks like its rotten. Is this a fungal infection? How do you prevent it?

thanks! :flowers:

 

[Morpheus uk]

Sounds like a humidity issue, could be some sort of diesese in which case i would clean and replace everything in the set up. As for the males they wouldnt be true males but gynandromorphs and infertile.

 

[gadunka888]

hmm... thanks for the quick reply but right now i'm living in singpore, which is somewhere around the native range of this species( even now i'm not even sure if its a lonchodes sp. or carausisus) so i'm not sure if humiditiy is a problem

anyway i'll get some pics soon!