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Humidity and moulting - fact or fiction?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rick" data-source="post: 231" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Ramona, the moss usually seems to last a couple weeks. The smaller the mantis the longer it lasts. The moss does not go bad but dropped food tends to mold when it hits the moss. So the bigger the pieces of dropped food the worse it gets. However it does take awhile to grow mold. The stuff comes dry and I get it soaked and then put a half an inch in the bottom. I mist the inside of the glass every day and every other day I rewet the moss. Works really well as I have had no mismolts or deaths. And yes it does seem the older the nymphs get the better they seem to survive. I lose so many before the first molt. But once they get established they seem to be ok. Some can and will still die however. I have three left from the ooth that hatched in Sept and those are already subadults. Did both of the ooths I sent you hatch?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rick, post: 231, member: 13"] Ramona, the moss usually seems to last a couple weeks. The smaller the mantis the longer it lasts. The moss does not go bad but dropped food tends to mold when it hits the moss. So the bigger the pieces of dropped food the worse it gets. However it does take awhile to grow mold. The stuff comes dry and I get it soaked and then put a half an inch in the bottom. I mist the inside of the glass every day and every other day I rewet the moss. Works really well as I have had no mismolts or deaths. And yes it does seem the older the nymphs get the better they seem to survive. I lose so many before the first molt. But once they get established they seem to be ok. Some can and will still die however. I have three left from the ooth that hatched in Sept and those are already subadults. Did both of the ooths I sent you hatch? [/QUOTE]
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