problems shedding

[MantidLord]

well i have two females and one left to molt and is smaller. im guessing is the male. hopefully he hurries up and molts because i want some more ooths for next year. oh and there all in the same cage already. and i feed them as much as possible. i will just let them do there natural thing.

I wouldn't worry, I've mated different mantids 10+ times, and no eaten males yet. Of course it wouldn't hurt to feed the females a little before. But just save room for giving her food once the male is ready to mate. I mated a male with thee different females, and he mated with two of them twice. I'm sure you have a shot. You don't need to wait a week to mate them though. This species can mate after a full 24 hours after molting. I would seperate the two females though. Once the females are pregnate, anything is food :blink: Keep the male with them, as he'll want to remate with the females as much as possible. Plus he'll only have a week or two to live afterword anyway. Good luck

 

[woo boo hui wan]

thanks mantis lord. i will probly have to seperate the females. they seem to be giving each other the eye of hunger. are the the male one hasent even shed to adult yet so i dont think they can mate yet. he should pretty soon, hopefully.

 

[Guest_kakistos_*]

If you put him in the freezer for 2 minutes, he did not die! You should've left him in there for hours. When I use the freezer to calm down crickets, after 10 minutes they come out unconcious but after a while they start to move again.

 

[Rick]

For hours? Not hardly. A good ten of fifteen mins is more than enough. A mantis will not survive that. I generally feed them to another mantis or to one of my herps these days though.

 

[MantidLord]

It's good to have the females mature before the males, woo boo, the females live two months longer than the males, so you'll be fine

 

[woo boo hui wan]

If you put him in the freezer for 2 minutes, he did not die!

well it was a bit more than 2 minutes, and im pretty sure he was dead. the dots in his eyes were gone. he just looked like he had no life in him. i didnt want to do it, but i also didnt want him to suffer in his stuck skin forever.

mantislord- cool good to know.