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Food and Feeding
gongylus and locusts
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<blockquote data-quote="infinity" data-source="post: 16918" data-attributes="member: 201"><p>Never kept gongys so i have no experience on this so someone that does, maybe you can help... What are the exact symptoms of feeding crix to gongys? - does it affect the lower instars or just the ooth producing female? If just the female, I've been thinking (with reference to what julian said) that yeah, crix might be very high in protein but usually they're a kept with low water diets, so maybe *frothing up* an ooth requires a lot of water??? Or maybe the mantis can use the protein it eats very well to make its own protein but unlike mosquitoes n such, it cannot convert that protein to energy easily (and sinch ooth production is very energy requiring, it might screw that up). So perhaps something fatty like a waxworm or something with lots of sugar like a bee might solve it... I guess this needs to be tested- these are just my theories.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="infinity, post: 16918, member: 201"] Never kept gongys so i have no experience on this so someone that does, maybe you can help... What are the exact symptoms of feeding crix to gongys? - does it affect the lower instars or just the ooth producing female? If just the female, I've been thinking (with reference to what julian said) that yeah, crix might be very high in protein but usually they're a kept with low water diets, so maybe *frothing up* an ooth requires a lot of water??? Or maybe the mantis can use the protein it eats very well to make its own protein but unlike mosquitoes n such, it cannot convert that protein to energy easily (and sinch ooth production is very energy requiring, it might screw that up). So perhaps something fatty like a waxworm or something with lots of sugar like a bee might solve it... I guess this needs to be tested- these are just my theories. [/QUOTE]
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