Hi,
I recently acquired seven baby mantises there’s been a few casualty’s already in order:
One was eaten by a cricket less than half of his size.
One had ruptured/popped in transit and died shortly after delivery
One was just dead on the bottom of the tub two days after I purchased them
So remaining I have:
2 x Orchid Mantis (1cm long)
1 x Spiky Flower Mantis (1cm long)
1 x Unidentified Brown Mantis (2cm long)
So now I have purchased some pre made fruit flies I have a pot that has what looks like mash potatoes with some curled wood shavings on the top and loads of casters (maggots that have gone hard) a few hatched today about four of them and I’m wondering how do you get the flies from this pot into the pots with the mantis in?
So far the only idea I have is making a hole in the mantis tubs and a hole in the fly tub and linking them with a straw and some black electrical tape and hoping the flies propagate from tub to tub.
The mantis are only small so I purchased some of the long rectangle pots they keep grasshoppers in at the reptile shop put some wet tissue on one side of the put as seen on pictures here and some plant life and they seem happy enough in there ill try and get some pictures later.
Any suggestions for a better tub would be welcome.
Anasule
I recently acquired seven baby mantises there’s been a few casualty’s already in order:
One was eaten by a cricket less than half of his size.
One had ruptured/popped in transit and died shortly after delivery
One was just dead on the bottom of the tub two days after I purchased them
So remaining I have:
2 x Orchid Mantis (1cm long)
1 x Spiky Flower Mantis (1cm long)
1 x Unidentified Brown Mantis (2cm long)
So now I have purchased some pre made fruit flies I have a pot that has what looks like mash potatoes with some curled wood shavings on the top and loads of casters (maggots that have gone hard) a few hatched today about four of them and I’m wondering how do you get the flies from this pot into the pots with the mantis in?
So far the only idea I have is making a hole in the mantis tubs and a hole in the fly tub and linking them with a straw and some black electrical tape and hoping the flies propagate from tub to tub.
The mantis are only small so I purchased some of the long rectangle pots they keep grasshoppers in at the reptile shop put some wet tissue on one side of the put as seen on pictures here and some plant life and they seem happy enough in there ill try and get some pictures later.
Any suggestions for a better tub would be welcome.
Anasule
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