Tips to mate chinese pairs?

[mkayum]

I have two adult females which molted like 5 days ago or more and are they ready to mate? I have placed my male so he could pick their scent or see them. He gets scared of them, he'd go back to my hand and refuses going back in his rack "plastic shoe box tall". He havent eaten since 3 days ago. He molted last week.

I think i'd wait two week if they are ready.

Here's pictures enjoy!

That's my male

Jomo.

My 1# female

Jinx

My 2# female

Janx



I have two about L/5 nymph are about to be adult anytime soon. I think there are one female and one male. I'm pretty positive. Haha!

thank for looking!

 

[PhilinYuma]

Most breeders would probably suggest that you wait until your male and females have been adults for about two weeks before mating them. At that time, see if one (or both) of the females is "signalling", raising her tail and releasing pheromones. Make your breeding attempt in the evening and try placing the female in front of the male, making sure that she sees him, rather than placing the male behind the female which may startle her. I'm sure, though, that everyone has his/her own technique that they swear by.

It is really unfortunate that you only have one male and two females (girls, Rebecca dear!) since the females of this species don't always take well to mating.

On the bright side, your females may well still be fecund two-three weeks afteryour sub males eclose. In nature, the lazy female sits around on a summer evening squirting her pheromones into the air and waiting for males to court her. It is not a bad strategy to introduce a female into a net cube containing several males (not the other way around) and let nature take its course. Finally, let the pair separate naturally, even if it takes several days. Some observers claim that the male remains on the female to prevent other males from mating with her, but why take the chance?

Please let us know how yr efforts work out!

 

[Ntsees]

+1 to the above post. Fatten the females first if you want to give it a go. Also, the male running away means he's not ready just yet.

 

[Rick]

http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7112

 

[mkayum]

Most breeders would probably suggest that you wait until your male and females have been adults for about two weeks before mating them. At that time, see if one (or both) of the females is "signalling", raising her tail and releasing pheromones. Make your breeding attempt in the evening and try placing the female in front of the male, making sure that she sees him, rather than placing the male behind the female which may startle her. I'm sure, though, that everyone has his/her own technique that they swear by.

It is really unfortunate that you only have one male and two females (girls, Rebecca dear!) since the females of this species don't always take well to mating.

On the bright side, your females may well still be fecund two-three weeks afteryour sub males eclose. In nature, the lazy female sits around on a summer evening squirting her pheromones into the air and waiting for males to court her. It is not a bad strategy to introduce a female into a net cube containing several males (not the other way around) and let nature take its course. Finally, let the pair separate naturally, even if it takes several days. Some observers claim that the male remains on the female to prevent other males from mating with her, but why take the chance?

Please let us know how yr efforts work out!

My nymph just molted while i was away for couple day and it turns out taht he was a male, now we have two males. Jeez. Thank for the tip! hahaha.

 

[nebrakacinese]

I'm doing my 2nd. attempt with chinese.Last year I was succssful,hopefuly it will go well this year.Awhile back on this forum I read about hobbling the females.Has anyone ever tried this?This part of Ne. has a lot of chinese, maybe I should just go catch more males.