egg retention

[Red]

Hi, i have mated a paid of sphodromantis sp. for 3 weeks, and the female dont laid the ooth yet. its normal? how can i do if she have retention?

Best Regards

 

[Rick]

Sounds fine. Give her more time.

 

[Ben.M]

Yup, nothing abnormal about that, she just needs more time

 

[Red]

hi... dont laid the ooth yet... she is very very fat... i think that if she go on eating.... she will explote!.

is crucially the temperature descense in night?

cos i had she about 28 at day and 26 at night. and now i have she at 25 at day and 22 at night.

what do you think?

Regards

 

[hibiscusmile]

That's fine Red, you worry more than me :lol: , she will look like she will pop and then, right before she does, you will see your ooth.

 

[Red]

That's fine Red, you worry more than me :lol: , she will look like she will pop and then, right before she does, you will see your ooth.

i know, but i think that 4-5 weeks to laid the ooths is really much time... i'm waiting for sure, the biggest ooth that i never seen.

Regards and thanks

 

[Rick]

Just had this situation. Have had an s. limbata that should of laid her first ooth a couple months ago. Her younger siblings already laid theirs. So I moved her to a large enclosure with plenty of places to lay an ooth as that usually works. Well a month had passed and nothing. She has been very fat for a long time. Well today I noticed she was not doing well so I decided to dispose of her. After the freezer did its work I wanted to see what she looked like inside. Inside she was FULL of eggs. There were eggs even in her thorax. Most of these eggs were nearly black in color. No wonder she never laid an ooth.

 

[Mantida]

Just had this situation. Have had an s. limbata that should of laid her first ooth a couple months ago. Her younger siblings already laid theirs. So I moved her to a large enclosure with plenty of places to lay an ooth as that usually works. Well a month had passed and nothing. She has been very fat for a long time. Well today I noticed she was not doing well so I decided to dispose of her. After the freezer did its work I wanted to see what she looked like inside. Inside she was FULL of eggs. There were eggs even in her thorax. Most of these eggs were nearly black in color. No wonder she never laid an ooth.

I don't really understand. How come she was full of eggs but never laid?

 

[Rick]

I don't really understand. How come she was full of eggs but never laid?

Don't know.

 

[Red]

######...she is the first mantis get and (later have more species)

a `pic of her abdomen.



Regards

 

[Rick]

I can say though that this is rare. I have had some retain eggs but eventually lay them. This is the first that didn't.

 

[Precious]

I have heard that the foam used to make the casing for the eggs hardens in the abdomen for any number of reasons. However, I was on the verge of freezing a female of mine when she finally laid an ooth. She couldn't move, could hardly breathe and I was sure she was a goner and frankly didn't want to witness the explosion. But, just like Hibiscus said, just when I thought she would pop - she cast her ooth AND IT WAS HUGE!

 

[Rick]

I have heard that the foam used to make the casing for the eggs hardens in the abdomen for any number of reasons. However, I was on the verge of freezing a female of mine when she finally laid an ooth. She couldn't move, could hardly breathe and I was sure she was a goner and frankly didn't want to witness the explosion. But, just like Hibiscus said, just when I thought she would pop - she cast her ooth AND IT WAS HUGE!

In mine it was not hard. They really are not full of any foam. The foam is mostly all air.