The ooth laying is a long time, at least 2 months a lot of time before they lay.
Hymenopus coronatus orchid mate on back but no sucess in contact
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I don't remember that since it has been over two years. However I sure hope it is the case with this one.
He is! problem is he is focusing on what he wants, not us! Some of them drive u crazy. Sometimes it is so noisy in the bug room with the males tapping all the time, and not gettin down to business and the girls are just sitting there saying, enough with the drums, lets do this! I'm hungry! :lol:
Yea Rick, I have mated some that are 7 weeks adult and at about 9 weeks they are just laying, so it takes forever with this species, and the only one close to it is the peacock! Talk about slow......
She is at about five weeks now. He has been at it for three days now but no attempt to even connect. Drumming away as I speak. He stays on her and as you can see by the pic he caught a fly and then went back to drumming. I swear I don't remember this being so frustrating when I kept them before.
haha, I gotta tell you, if he is doing that, he prob wont mate right now, Whenever mine do that, he ends up dinner or I have to seperate them because after three or four days, I gotta worry about her, because when they notice he is there, she won't eat and will flutter her wings trying to remove him, the last one that did that just got mated, it took 3 weeks of putting him in and taking him out! Sometimes I think he is just thinking he is at Disney World and she is just a ride for going around the park looking to see all the sights while being watered and fed on this nice soft back seat!
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It takes the girls so long to become adult sometimes I lose track of the boys ages. When I clean their houses, they do get mixed up sometimes so I dont know how much that matters, I do know if they are really old they seem to have one last go and that is it. But young, I dont know about that. I know some say that the night is when they are best together for mating, I can't verify that, as some times as soon as u put them together it starts and other times, it starts at night, guess there is no real trick to it, just whatever they want...when.
PhilinYuma
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Yeah. A lot of folks forget/don't know that when a female is egg bound, she is asking for more humidity! (Some, though, are just plain obstinate!).
davestreasurechest
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SARAH LAID HER OOTH!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT 2 MONTHS
SHE JUST MATED SUCESSFULLY LAST WEEK.......
AND IS ONLY 5 WEEKS MATURED TO ADULT ,....WOW
PRAISE GOD! BELOW ARE SOME PICS,.....
I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT 2 MONTHS
SHE JUST MATED SUCESSFULLY LAST WEEK.......
AND IS ONLY 5 WEEKS MATURED TO ADULT ,....WOW
PRAISE GOD! BELOW ARE SOME PICS,.....
Good news. She took a big risk clinging to the glass to do it though. Surprised she didn't fall. Other than the curve which won't hurt anything she did good. I probably got mine mated right in time.SARAH LAID HER OOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHE JUST MATED SUCESSFULLY LAST WEEK.......
AND IS ONLY 5 WEEKS MATURED TO ADULT ,....WOW
PRAISE GOD! BELOW ARE SOME PICS,.....
davestreasurechest
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Where did you get yours? maybe we can exchange nymphs in future for change in bloodline. if that makes a difference,I have heard it discussed
congrats to yours as well!,....
congrats to yours as well!,....
Won't make a difference for awhile but it is a good idea at some point. My male and female came from two different people so you could say i've already done it.
davestreasurechest
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I have had her in a net cage , and was worrying about temp and humidity ,so i made that plexi-glass cage to hold more temp-humidity (just yesterday) and that must have made it better conditions to propt her to lay, so what Phillinyuma and bassist said is right. Humidity and temp is apparently a big factor in ooth laying,.
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Well now all u's have to do is wait! The hardest part is over!
davestreasurechest
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Here i am years later with still no success in breeding, I have been trying and trying and have got advice from many sources and often complex and/or contradicting ,...heres what i have now
female #1 mated once at 23days adult layed ooth 2 weeks later and another in 2 weeks time (awaiting possible hatch)
female #2 mated at 18days adult and again at 28days adult and no ooths laid (under same conditions as fem#1)
if she is mated why hasnt she laid an ooth? if it take 6 to 8 weeks sometimes to lay,ok but i have had previously females
become eggbound and die without laying ANY ooths,and tried increase humidity,re-mateing,different males,different bloodlines,free rangeing,varied diet and nothing worked,and even had forum freinds have the same issues..urrgh this is very frustrating and expensive. :angry:
female #1 mated once at 23days adult layed ooth 2 weeks later and another in 2 weeks time (awaiting possible hatch)
female #2 mated at 18days adult and again at 28days adult and no ooths laid (under same conditions as fem#1)
if she is mated why hasnt she laid an ooth? if it take 6 to 8 weeks sometimes to lay,ok but i have had previously females
become eggbound and die without laying ANY ooths,and tried increase humidity,re-mateing,different males,different bloodlines,free rangeing,varied diet and nothing worked,and even had forum freinds have the same issues..urrgh this is very frustrating and expensive. :angry:
