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Breeding & Nymph Care
Hello! n00b with Tenodera sinensis L1s
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<blockquote data-quote="vonmehr" data-source="post: 251803" data-attributes="member: 7259"><p>I was in your shoes not two weeks ago. It's late in the week to order smaller fruit fly cultures. You may find someone willing to overnight, but you'd have to act fast. (You would also have to find someone selling a well started culture. New ones take about 10 days to start producing). My advice is find a PetCo near you and pick up a culture or two of Melanogaster fruit flies. They're smaller than Hydei. I would call ahead to make sure they have it in stock as well as verify that they're alive. I ran into a bit of a pickle with this. It was my 4th Petco that had good cultures.</p><p></p><p>Chinese are a voracious species, so they will be prone to cannibalism. You'd be better off separating them sooner rather than later. Rebecca (mantidpets.com) has a good stock of deli cups that you can house them in as nymphs until you get or build better enclosures for them. Rule of thumb for size is 3x their length in height and 2x their length in width. Have fun with it too. I've really enjoyed making some nice enclosures for some of my older mantids. One of the great things is that they can really be done on the cheap. Check out the Housing section of the forum for some cool and inventive ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vonmehr, post: 251803, member: 7259"] I was in your shoes not two weeks ago. It's late in the week to order smaller fruit fly cultures. You may find someone willing to overnight, but you'd have to act fast. (You would also have to find someone selling a well started culture. New ones take about 10 days to start producing). My advice is find a PetCo near you and pick up a culture or two of Melanogaster fruit flies. They're smaller than Hydei. I would call ahead to make sure they have it in stock as well as verify that they're alive. I ran into a bit of a pickle with this. It was my 4th Petco that had good cultures. Chinese are a voracious species, so they will be prone to cannibalism. You'd be better off separating them sooner rather than later. Rebecca (mantidpets.com) has a good stock of deli cups that you can house them in as nymphs until you get or build better enclosures for them. Rule of thumb for size is 3x their length in height and 2x their length in width. Have fun with it too. I've really enjoyed making some nice enclosures for some of my older mantids. One of the great things is that they can really be done on the cheap. Check out the Housing section of the forum for some cool and inventive ideas. [/QUOTE]
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