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My first mantids ever found in wild, G. Grisea! Plus, mysterious ootheca
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<blockquote data-quote="vulturette" data-source="post: 288609" data-attributes="member: 8153"><p>I've updated the other thread I have on them more than this one if you want to read more.Every single one of them died. The one that lived the longest lived from the beginning of September (when I caught it, not when it was born) to the end of November. All of them looked lively and promising, until one day they would stop moving a lot and rest on the bottom of the container until they die. I had two dozen of them at various instars, all die like this. I even had a wild caught female lay an ooth, and it hatched. Every single one of the nymphs died after a week, after refusing to eat anything I put in with them. This species is HARD, way above my husbandry skills, and anyone else who has tried them so far (maybe like... two people). So I don't think they would make it to culture sadly. If the deaths didn't bother me, Id catch many more and try many different methods of raising them until I find their proper environment requirements. But it does bother me, so I won't. They are very interesting mantises to watch, but unless someone else wants to catch a bunch and get their hands dirty they might just stay a wild mantis.</p><p></p><p>TL;DR: They are hard to raise. All died. Too heartbroken to try again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vulturette, post: 288609, member: 8153"] I've updated the other thread I have on them more than this one if you want to read more.Every single one of them died. The one that lived the longest lived from the beginning of September (when I caught it, not when it was born) to the end of November. All of them looked lively and promising, until one day they would stop moving a lot and rest on the bottom of the container until they die. I had two dozen of them at various instars, all die like this. I even had a wild caught female lay an ooth, and it hatched. Every single one of the nymphs died after a week, after refusing to eat anything I put in with them. This species is HARD, way above my husbandry skills, and anyone else who has tried them so far (maybe like... two people). So I don't think they would make it to culture sadly. If the deaths didn't bother me, Id catch many more and try many different methods of raising them until I find their proper environment requirements. But it does bother me, so I won't. They are very interesting mantises to watch, but unless someone else wants to catch a bunch and get their hands dirty they might just stay a wild mantis. TL;DR: They are hard to raise. All died. Too heartbroken to try again. [/QUOTE]
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