Our male is an adult now

[The Gex Files]

Our male molted into adult Saturday, he looks great!

To bad our female just molted into Sub-adult..

We kept him at low temps, with less food and 1 drop of water a day, and he still grew faster. He was one instar lower than she when we bought them.

Hope he will live long enough to be bred to the female.

 

[warpdrive]

Our male molted into adult Saturday, he looks great!

To bad our female just molted into Sub-adult..

We kept him at low temps, with less food and 1 drop of water a day, and he still grew faster. He was one instar lower than she when we bought them.

Hope he will live long enough to be bred to the female.

wow, so sorry to hear that.

did you start the treatments to stun his groth late? or did you start it early?

like at what stage did you start this? L2? L3?

Harry

 

[hibiscusmile]

He will be fine, God made them that way! stop starving the little guy!

 

[warpdrive]

He will be fine, God made them that way! stop starving the little guy!

good advice. personaly if it were me I'd just adjust the temps. but I'm not a pro and don't like to give advice for things that I'm just learning or only read breafly about how to do things correctly.

Harry

 

[LauraMG]

Man! He's a pink one too! Those 2 put together are gonna make some pretty pink babies!

 

[warpdrive]

Man! He's a pink one too! Those 2 put together are gonna make some pretty pink babies!

I think the concern is that he now fears the the male may be too old for her and die before she is ready.

Harry

 

[The Gex Files]

We got them at L4 and L5, and the breeder told us to keep the male like this so they would mature at the same time.

There is a big difference between feeding less and starvation... We keep the male at 23-25 degrees Celsius and feed him every other day. The female is a bit warmer and gets fed every day... Lighten up people...

 

[Precarious]

Beautiful! I want some of these so bad!

 

[Mex_Ghost]

I think you are going to have sucess with them, I had the same problem twice the first time I fed him every other day, and He just passed away, but last time I did what Becky and Rick said in some posts, I fed him "normal" with just one House flie every day (the temp was ambient like 20-24 °C during the day), and the ladie every day with everything I got/found (temp about 28-30°C), after the female molted to adult I wait only one week to put them together and they made contact, then the next week I make a second try and again they mated, I tried in the third week but she didn´t want more.

Now I have some babies and one ooth waiting.

Well I just wanted to said not to be very drastic with the male.

saludos

 

[LauraMG]

I think the concern is that he now fears the the male may be too old for her and die before she is ready.

Yea, but the males mature faster in this species, but generally they live long enough to mate. My male was 2 molts ahead of my female and still made it to mate. Shouldn't be a problem