Hi all,
Today when I got home from school my ghost, Apollo, looked really weird. He was perfectly fine when I left at 3p, but in bad shape at 5pm. The thing that stuck out to me was that his antenna were not moving at all (ghost's antenna are usually always buzzing around). then I noticed a small bubble of oddly colored liquid on his left raptorial near his face. I took him out to look and he was barely holding onto his plant while I was lifting it out. I tried to feed him some honey, but his mouth parts are barely moving and he didn't really accept it (he usually loves it). Now he looks really weak slumped over sideways. His body keeps pulsing as if he is breathing heavily or kinda like a heartbeat pulses. He cannot keep his head or raptorials up and he looks really bad. I know the answer is probably that he is on death's door, but if there is anything I can try or should be doing please let me know. I'm very sad because him and his sister are my first mantids. They both molted last week wednesday-thursday and have had the exact same thing to eat (a bluebottle and a cricket). his sister is just fine and looks normal so I'm not really sure what happened to him
. Here are some pics, but be warned that they are sad to look at. Anyway, I know he is most likely about to die, but thanks for looking.
Best,
a sad mantis lover
EDIT: unfortunately Apollo passed shortly after this post. I suppose I'll leave the post up for now in case anyone is curious or has similar issues.
Today when I got home from school my ghost, Apollo, looked really weird. He was perfectly fine when I left at 3p, but in bad shape at 5pm. The thing that stuck out to me was that his antenna were not moving at all (ghost's antenna are usually always buzzing around). then I noticed a small bubble of oddly colored liquid on his left raptorial near his face. I took him out to look and he was barely holding onto his plant while I was lifting it out. I tried to feed him some honey, but his mouth parts are barely moving and he didn't really accept it (he usually loves it). Now he looks really weak slumped over sideways. His body keeps pulsing as if he is breathing heavily or kinda like a heartbeat pulses. He cannot keep his head or raptorials up and he looks really bad. I know the answer is probably that he is on death's door, but if there is anything I can try or should be doing please let me know. I'm very sad because him and his sister are my first mantids. They both molted last week wednesday-thursday and have had the exact same thing to eat (a bluebottle and a cricket). his sister is just fine and looks normal so I'm not really sure what happened to him
. Here are some pics, but be warned that they are sad to look at. Anyway, I know he is most likely about to die, but thanks for looking.Best,
a sad mantis lover
EDIT: unfortunately Apollo passed shortly after this post. I suppose I'll leave the post up for now in case anyone is curious or has similar issues.
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