Ghost Nymphs

[Butterfly]

So I'd never raised the species but bought 3 p.paradoxa from Rebecca a while ago.

They were great and I ended up with 2 females oner male, but one female was really delayed and didnt get mated before he got eaten. Well the one that was mated has laid 4 ooths so far and one just hatched last week.

Only 5 hatched, and 2 didnt even survive the hatch. The other 3 died off 4 days later for no apparent reason.

Id just gotten a batch of fruit flies brought in 70 miles, but they died the same night.

Is this a species know to be hard to hatch successfully? What do I need to do different?

I have 3 more ooths so I want to make sure Im ready for the next hatch!!

And yes I have been gone a LONG time, but am back online again and from my own place, kinda lol.

 

[worldofmantis]

whats ur hatching container like?

 

[kamakiri]

I'm thinking they probably needed more humidity. I've only hatched one ghost ooth, so I'd also wait for others to chime in. But mine hatched out completely and was incubated with a 'humidity foam' insert on the base of the container. I also have had to keep them fairly well humidified for molting, and I've got 8 L6s and sold 11 or 12 L3s previously. Though I did have a few mis-molts earlier which died when I didn't spray/humidify as much.