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Mantid Discussions
Breeding & Nymph Care
Incest with mantids
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<blockquote data-quote="guapoalto049" data-source="post: 344748" data-attributes="member: 4037"><p>I think inbreeding is heavily overstated. I’ve personally bred a species for 6 years that originated from one ootheca. Hatch rates, adult size, and nymph survival have not changed. </p><p> There is no scientific data and anyone, including me, is telling anecdotes. I don’t believe mantises in nature are constantly sharing alleles every 1-2 generations, they just don’t move enough for that to happen. I also think when people fail to breed a species, they look for a scapegoat for the failure. Mantis breeding is difficult, sometimes it just doesn’t work out even when things are done perfectly. There’s a ton we don’t understand, but repetitive inbreeding has been done on many occasions without ill effects that I’ve seen thus far. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="guapoalto049, post: 344748, member: 4037"] I think inbreeding is heavily overstated. I’ve personally bred a species for 6 years that originated from one ootheca. Hatch rates, adult size, and nymph survival have not changed. There is no scientific data and anyone, including me, is telling anecdotes. I don’t believe mantises in nature are constantly sharing alleles every 1-2 generations, they just don’t move enough for that to happen. I also think when people fail to breed a species, they look for a scapegoat for the failure. Mantis breeding is difficult, sometimes it just doesn’t work out even when things are done perfectly. There’s a ton we don’t understand, but repetitive inbreeding has been done on many occasions without ill effects that I’ve seen thus far. [/QUOTE]
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