RIP Metal

[agent A]

Well this morning I found Marissa had eaten him but her abdomen was open so they did mate and now Metal is only a mutilated abdomen end and a few claws and wings. So sad. She didn't eat the crickets but she ate him. Why did this happen? Her, Metal and another male were in the cage for a week before this tradgedy. At least he died happy.

 

[massaman]

bad idea to leave males with females unattended sometimes but you prob did not give him any way to escape if he was trying to flee either i would of at least watched them if you were going to rebreed them and just make sure a connection was made then let them go at their business!

 

[agent A]

I had them together with a bunch of crickets because Marissa needed to mate and she did mate but then ate him.

 

[massaman]

well glad that has never happened to me as all of the species I had and mated had 100 percent survival of the males dont know why some end up eaten maybe pore timing on escaping or something but guess your prob lose another male sooner or later the same way and that includes my creobroter gemmatus of my own and bred them and no male deaths !

 

[bassist]

Rest in Pieces amirite?

 

[idolomantis]

Bassist, i was drinking coke :<

 

[hibiscusmile]

Well maybe u will get babies! he wouldn't live much longer anyways.

 

[sbugir]

Yeah, dude you should have made sure she ate before...shes gotta be full to prevent stuff like that.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Yeah, dude you should have made sure she ate before...shes gotta be full to prevent stuff like that.

Yeah. I hate to admit it Agent A, but he's right. It looks as though you scored another first on the forum, allowing a poor male to spend the night alone with a hungry female. You sealed his doom! :huh:

 

[sbugir]

Yeah. I hate to admit it Agent A, but he's right. It looks as though you scored another first on the forum, allowing a poor male to spend the night alone with a hungry female. You sealed his doom! :huh:

You hate to admit that I'n right? That's not nice Phil Nah, I'm pretty sure i know what you meant

 

[PhilinYuma]

You hate to admit that I'n right? That's not nice Phil Nah, I'm pretty sure i know what you meant

I'm sure that by now, lemmiwinks, you realize that I wanted you to be wrong! I had hoped that such a young lad could not be so flagrantly flagitious and unconscionably unconcerned as to have perpetrated such a peccadillo, but alas, your insinuation is incontrovertible!

 

[agent A]

there were crickets in the cage when they mated. I was sleeping when the whole thing happened, sleeping!

 

[Opivy]

no excuse! you killed him. I can't see how you're going to sleep ever again =p

 

[agent A]

you know, I don't like all these mean comments just because Metal was eaten. It's nature, it happens, it was my mantis, and I have plenty of other males. I read that cannabalizm can actually help the babies.

 

[massaman]

well we all take in good and mean comments and well you may not like them but it is called "tough love" and you looked like you needed it and may need alot more if you plan to ever be good at raising mantids!

 

[massaman]

here is some basic information before you breed any species you feed them in advanced and make sure they get plenty to eat before you introduce them and mate them and never leave food items in there with a mating mantis they can interfere with their mating and could of harmed or killed both of them and you would of had nothing and nothing to show for the work you put into mating them and you need to go back and relearn how to rear and raise a praying mantis and really learn what you must do and not do and how anyone could be negligent and have as much experience as you did then somethings not right and either your just not capable or something and I have even less experience and maybe a year at most and know most of this already on the does and donts of mating them and how to avoid them being eaten or one of them dying in the mating process!

 

[beckyl92]

i hope i never experience that!

im always so nervous when mating mantids.. i try to keep and eye on them 24/7 but we all know you can't do that as you could be there for days!

so sorry for your loss

i got a pair of creobroter gemmatus this morning. ive heard the females can be quite aggressive towards the males.

luckily major vex mated them for me before he sent them off!

 

[massaman]

Always had good luck breeding every species of mantis I have and had 0 fatalities of males being eaten as every mating the male has gotten away and its do to the fact that I always make sure the female gets fed before hand and when a mantis does not want to mate then always wait another day to try again but sometimes its hard to rebreed a species when the female and male both wont cooperate no matter how many times you reintroduce them to each other!

 

[agent A]

well look, Marissa is quite plump and may lay eggs in a few weeks.