Getting D. lobata to mate?

[PragmaticHominid]

I'm having a heck of a time getting my lobatas to breed, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've bred a number of species but I've never had this much difficulty before.

Any tricks for this species?

 

[gripen]

I am having a lot of trouble too. Can you describe what yours are doing?

 

[hierodula]

Read Yen's log at his website. When I was starting on a new species, they helped me out a lot. Hop you guys have success. His website is usamantis.com

 

[hibiscusmile]

good luck and God bless, I have only mated a couple in all I have had, and let me tell you, I never look forward to this!!

 

[PragmaticHominid]

I just had them in netcubes under a heat lamp, which normally does the trick for most species.

But that wasn't cutting it, so I put a layer of paper towels, followed by a layer of coconut fiber, followed by a ton of leaves down on the bottom of the cube. I also put some fresh branches with the leaves still on in the cage, because someone told me that adding dead leaves was the trick (though the leaves I had were still fresh when I put them in last night). Then I misted the heck out of everything.

And that seemed to have worked. The male has mounted the female, and I'm about 90% sure they're connected but I don't want to bother them too much trying to find out.

 

[GhostYeahX]

First, you gotta be patient.

Increase the humidity and temperature.

The male might just keeping stearing at female for 2 days and do nothing, this also happens even after male jumps onto female back.

You can just simply put male on the female, this may help

Good luck, mine pairs successfully mated 2 wks ago

 

[mantid_mike]

So what's the verdict...did you ever get them to breed?