Holy heck!!!

[D_Hemptress]

I noticed while I was getting ready for work this morning that Vitioza had finally started laying her ooth, after a week or more o being so fat she could hardly move... i snapped a quick shot a then headed to work...



It certainly looks healthy enough to me... but ive never seen a stagmomantis limbata lay an ooth this way, they have always been flat up against something. This one lifts up at one end...



Now i ask you what is the usual size for an ooth of this sp.? Because i thought that they were about the size of a nickle, or sometimes a quarter, being on the larger side.... This one measures out to 1.5 inches



And now she is complaining about stretch marks!

 

[SilentDeviL]

Nice that a pretty long ooth congratz ,

 

[shaneckc]

Interesting! I've never actually seen an ooth before, and I had no idea how they were made until now! Yesterday, my boss told me he had one in his backyard a few months ago. He called it a cocoon :lol: . I was so Jealous!

And lol, "complaining about stretch marks." :lol:

 

[D_Hemptress]

im not planning on keeping any of her ooths. i dont have the space yet.... this one is going to go in a friends garden

 

[shaneckc]

Is that a red vines container that she's living in??

 

[D_Hemptress]

Is that a red vines container that she's living in??

lol yes sir it is

 

[shaneckc]

Love the level of innovation, hahah!

 

[D_Hemptress]

i figured i needed a big enclosure and we needed candy on my desk at work... two birds, one stone!

 

[Coneja]

Wow, her abdomen is huge in that first picture! No wonder she couldn't move...

I didn't pick up on the Red Vines. I like the little path you made for her on top of the "ceiling."

 

[Canamantis]

Congrats on the ooth

 

[D_Hemptress]

Wow, her abdomen is huge in that first picture! No wonder she couldn't move...

I didn't pick up on the Red Vines. I like the little path you made for her on top of the "ceiling."

there are actually ventilation holes under the screen, i added the little twigs more recently when she was starting to have a hard time moving. it provided just a little more grip.

and im surprised that he even picked up on the redvines thing

 

[shaneckc]

im surprised that he even picked up on the redvines thing

Haha, what can I say? I guess I know my red vines . That was my favorite candy growing up.

 

[Coneja]

Haha, what can I say? I guess I know my red vines . That was my favorite candy growing up.

That is too funny.

 

[D_Hemptress]

Wow, her abdomen is huge in that first picture! No wonder she couldn't move...

check out this picture of her breeding for the second a week before she layed the ooth... you cant even really see how big she was before she started laying it in the first picture

http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?app=galleryℑ=4280

 

[Coneja]

Jeez, haha! I'm suddenly getting flashbacks to Monty Python's The Meaning of Life... "wafer-thin!" :lol:

 

[ladygigi]

Wow, WTG! Now, your not keeping the ooth huh? I was gonna ask ya how long before it hatches. . . Did she consume her mate after the breeding or were you there to save him?

 

[D_Hemptress]

Wow, WTG! Now, your not keeping the ooth huh? I was gonna ask ya how long before it hatches. . . Did she consume her mate after the breeding or were you there to save him?

well the one she came from hatched in about a 1-2 months, unfortunetly i wasnt too into keeping mantids and i hadnt written down the dates. so i cant say that for certain :/

and for your second questoin, the first two times i mated her she didnt, but she was so fat as you can see. but this very last time after she layed the ooth. the next morning he seem to have gone *POOF* not a trace of him left... well i did find the tip of one of his claws

 

[ladygigi]

well the one she came from hatched in about a 1-2 months, unfortunetly i wasnt too into keeping mantids and i hadnt written down the dates. so i cant say that for certain :/

and for your second questoin, the first two times i mated her she didnt, but she was so fat as you can see. but this very last time after she layed the ooth. the next morning he seem to have gone *POOF* not a trace of him left... well i didnt the tip of one of his claws

No wonder she was so fat! LOL :lol: Between the eggs AND him, jeesh, she was as swollen as she could have been. Lucky she didn't split! Poor girl. No wonder she was complaining of stretch marks! ^_^