I'm a mommy!

[dldy]

Chinese ooth laid on 11/11/08 hatched last night. Only abot 50+ in the cup, might still be hatching. They are SO CUTE!

What do I do now? When should I fed them first? Separate them or keep them together?

 

[ismart]

Congrats on your new nymphs!

I usally keep them together till they are at least L3. In this way you will have a more mangeable amount to work with. Not mention it weeds out the sick and the weak. I would deffinetly mist them lightly first. They usally dont eat on the first day , but i would throw in some fruit flies and gauge there hunger level.

Hope this helps!

 

[kamakiri]

Congratulations!

You can start feeding with fruit flies, pinheads (baby crickets), or aphids (if you can find them - probably too cold out right now).

When or how you separate the nymphs really depends on how many you want to end up with, or raise to adulthood.

 

[Rick]

Keep them together until they die off or are eaten and you have about ten left. Then seperate what you have left into individual 32 oz deli cups and feed fruit flies.

 

[dldy]

Had a heck of a time last night transfering them from a cup to a tank I saw some coming out of the ooth this am, made the other ones kinda angry, lol.

Just misting them, added some fruit flies too. They aren't eating anything, the flies or eachother, they are doing a defensive pose at the flies. I'm guessing they have to realise it's food. Some are dead already, good to know from reading the forum that's normal.

I have another ooth that hasn't hatched, it was laid about 3 weeks after this one. Gonna have a busy winter!