My first Ooth hatches

[phreeze]

 

[Giosan]

yaay! Cute little ghosts

 

[phreeze]

well all seem healthy so far, although non have even looked at the fruit flies yet. Any ideas on how long it should be before they are hungry, had seen a couple of days suggested other places.

 

[Giosan]

2-3 days mostly. Sometimes longer... Just throw in the flies 2 days after hatching and wait!

 

[idolomantis]

2-3 days mostly. Sometimes longer... Just throw in the flies 2 days after hatching and wait!

Thats's unlike my acromantis, they started to toss out my FF the day they hatched :blink:

 

[phreeze]

 

[yeatzee]

ur pictures aren't showing up for me

 

[phreeze]

damn, am using some hosting i have set up may need to try a public hosting site like deviant art or something

 

[yeatzee]

flickr, and picture push are good

 

[phreeze]

could you let me know if this one works any better, may needs scaling down though

 

[yeatzee]

Perfect

Cute little buggers u got urself

 

[phreeze]

well about 16 hours after they emerged as you can see the first few started eating, not exactly a feeding frenzy but the odd one was happily munching away, shich set my mind to rest a little.

 

[EOS]

Congrats! Those are some cute little ones!

 

[phreeze]

one more

will keep them comming slowly

 

[phreeze]

2 new pics

all mantids still doing well

 

[cloud jaguar]

Wow, those are cool! I can't wait for my wife's ghost ooth to hatch!

 

[phreeze]

could not believe my luck how fast my ooth hatched, apparently it was laid on the 21st of september and it hatched on the 12th of october. Wasn't 100% ready and hand to move them to a larger enclosre slowly, but they are all doing well, got their first molt to look forward to now. not exactly sure when to expect it but from what i have read arround 14 days would be right so 10 days ish to go.

 

[Zlyph]

Gotta say im a tad jealous =)

 

[mrblue]

nice photos, thats some great detail for such small mantids!

thats also a very quick incubation if the laid date is correct. mine all took around 30 days to hatch. as for moult times, i found with a good food supply and fairly warm (29/30C average) mine began moulting on the 7th day after hatching, and by the 10th day pretty much all had moulted to second instar.