New Ooth Journal

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

Hey friends just wanting to let you know that i will be getting a couple of ooths in the next month and wanted to make this a journal like entry for them. The first ooth is going to be a ghost mantis ooth that i will be receiving from @MantisGirl13, and i will plan on raising and selling the nymphs once i can sex them & only plan on keeping 2 pairs for future breeding. The other ooth i am receiving from a Facebook group member & the species of that ooth is Neodanuria Bolouana the Giant African Twig Mantis which from what little there is online about it seems to be a rare mantis so that en devour should be pretty fun and educational.

 

[Mantis Lady]

Good luck with your ooths?

 

[MantisGirl13]

 Again, congratulations on your ooths, @Ziiggy's Insectarium! The ghost female was mated last night, and I am fattening her up so she will lay! I hope it is a big ooth!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

Fingers crossed @MantisGirl13

 

[MantisGirl13]

 No ooth yet, but it should be soon!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

excited. now when mine start laying ooths do they need any special size of branch or stick? i read some where they need like  1/4 inchish diameter stick or branch to lay their ooths

 

[MantisGirl13]

My female has laid on a really thin stick, medium sized stick, a large stick, they really don't care.

- MantisGirl13

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

well thats good enough for me lol

 

[MantisGirl13]

 They are pretty easy!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

So update: I got the ooths and i put one into a bigger delicup and put damps towels on the bottom and have them sitting on a heat mat right now and will be fixing my closet with a new heating lamp and bulb i bought so as to keep the temp in that area at 75 the best i can. if not i might have to make an incubation chamber of some sorts

 

[MantisGirl13]

Sounds like a great setup!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

So update on the ooths the ghost ooth seems to be doing fine and my Giant East African Stick Mantis has been dropping larval or premature nymphs so hoping that it will make it in time to hatch properly so that way I can sell a rarer species of mantises to the community.

 

[MantisGirl13]

Ok. I hope they both hatch well for you!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Cole 78]

@Ziiggy's Insectarium any update?

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

@Ziiggy's Insectarium any update?

actually just had the ghost ooth hatch only two right now so thinking it might be a sparatic hatching and nothing yet on the african twigs

 

[MantisGirl13]

actually just had the ghost ooth hatch only two right now so thinking it might be a sparatic hatching and nothing yet on the african twigs

Still only two?! I hope it hatches more, but I don't know if it will!

- MantisGirl13

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

Still only two?! I hope it hatches more, but I don't know if it will!

- MantisGirl13

if not again no big deal. i atleast have two which makes me happy, would never blame you or anything just somethings you learn by experience. Also those ones that fell did not make it so i would say always use a small sprayer when misting dangling nymphs for future people

 

[MantisGirl13]

if not again no big deal. i atleast have two which makes me happy, would never blame you or anything just somethings you learn by experience. Also those ones that fell did not make it so i would say always use a small sprayer when misting dangling nymphs for future people

Thanks. If no more hatch, I can maybe send you a few from my mext hatch for the cost of shipping? 

- MantisGirl13

 

[Ziiggy's Insectarium]

sounds like it could be a deal.