I'm pretty sure no mating has taken place over night. I dont sleep so good, and usally i'm up at all sorts of time during the night checking to see whats going on. How long does this species normally stay connected, when they are connected?
Thats not good, my males are already 3 months as adults. The first time i tryed to mate them they were 3 weeks old as adults.
I have them all in seperate enclosures. I was thinking of putting all the females and both the males in a large net cube. I would have put them all together, but having only two males i did not want to chance them getting eaten. I guess i should just put them together anyway, being there pretty old as it is.
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Thats just to risky for me. If it does not work than i only have 1 male for 8 females.you could sacrifice one and cut off his head after he's mounted a female. that should reduce whatever inhibitions he has about mating with her (and not just because he cant see her anymore
Look at it this way, Ismart. If the experiment fails, you will just have nine mantises that die of unfulfilled old age.
I'm going to give them a little more time before i snipp off any heads. They dont seem to be on there way out just yet. I have used the decapitating method before, but only as a last resort.
I'd be careful with that. I had all mine in one cage for a while until one of them turned on her brother. They had plenty of food, too. I dunno what compelled her to go after him instead of one of the flies/crickets that were there, but she did. Usually it's ok but still, just a warning, keep a close eye on them.
They have all past on except for one last female. She still seems to be going strong. I still never never did see any mating. I did end up with a a few ooths though, but i dont think there fertile. I'm incubating them anyway just incase. My last adult male ghost was cannibalized by one of the females even with plenty of food in the enclosure. The other male i gave away in hopes maybe someone else might have better luck in breeding him.
Thanks for the update...
I was wondering what eventually happened with them. You'll have to let us know if any of the ooths hatch.
No need for apologies!
I do find it rather odd that you just happened to ask this question while i had a pair of ghost mate for the first time today. I cant give you an exact connection lenght. They were connected two hours before i went visit my mom. I came home 3 hours later to find he was already done. So for me it could have been anywhere from 2 to 5 hours of connection time. I just hope she is fertile. From my last batch of ghosts none of the ooths had hatched. 
