my female just laid her last ooth I think and would like to try to hatch it but just making sure that there is no need to prep it or anything as looked on some other sites and they said to leave it outside for at least a week before trying to incubate it and wonder if that is really needed or do I need to keep it out for at least one week or can I skip the week outside and just do what I normally do and incubate ooths once they are laid and completely dried!
Chinese Ooth
- Thread starter massaman
- Start date
Help Support Mantidforum:
PhilinYuma
Well-known member
Leaving any ooth outside for just a week is not going to make any difference at all, especially since yours is not in diapause. That's what happens when you stray from the Path of Righteousness and start looking at other, crazed sites! Here's something I came across on a British site, http://www.small-life.co.uk/page2b.html:
"The following are NOT suitable as mantid food because they can harm the mantid (either by poisoning or attacking it): ants, bees, wasps, spiders, woodlice, crickets, Indian stick insects, Peruvian fern stick insects." See what I mean?
Just keep inside and mist a couple times a week.
I plan on going to do that but going to try using a net cage to hatch it for a change and just got a question and do there need to be paper towel in the net cage under the branches I glued the ooth to and mist that or just mist through the sides of the cage and just keep doing that daily?I know when I spray the sides of 32 oz cup the sides do accumulate with water!
Dont think you need to put paper towels on the botton gotta think that these are usually layed out in the wild so theres really know need i think just leave it in the net cage and you shold be okay just mist like Katnapper said a couple times a week..
I do use a paper towel in the bottom of my net cages for mantids and ooths... but I don't think it's mandatory.
PhilinYuma
Well-known member
Paper towels in a net cage require so little work and can be such a life saver, depending on your ambient humidity, that I would suggest everyone use them. Obviously, an occasional misting is going to make very little difference in a net cage where there is sucha a free exchange between the inside and outside air's humidity. I will lose a net cage full of flies if I don't douse it at least once a day and keep the paper moist.
guess its a no brainer then and just concentrate on the paper towel in a net cage with water.I folded 2 sheets of paper towel to form a layer and fit it on the floor of the net cage and the branch with the ooth glued on it rests on top of the paper towel and so going to spray the paper towel in the net cage daily then and so it dont ruin the wood of my entertainment center I put a bath towel under the net cage!
Last edited by a moderator:
Just going to cross my fingers and hope that ooth is fertile if I am going to go use the net cage!Been almost a whole month since my female had laid one and this one was nice size and just hope it hatches in 4-8 weeks!
