Wahlbergii breeding "club"

[agent A]

i am starting this topic because many forum members are having difficulty breeding pseudocreobotra wahlbergii for various reasons

mainly because they r having shortages of one gender

so i have decided that if we all talk about wat we need to breed them, we can help each other out and get these guys bred

i sent many members males including mantid_mike and warpdrive and only have 1 male left but i may get 2 females and a few more males soon

i know tammy needs a male and so does rich

it seems some peeps have not enough males and some have not enough females

so let's talk about our current wahlbergii quota so we can assess the issue and help everyone breed them

 

[patrickfraser]

Too late for me to join the "club".

 

[agent A]

Too late for me to join the "club".

i thought u had wahlbergii?

if i have an extra ooth i could send it to u...

 

[patrickfraser]

I did, but my males were eaten and there were no replacements available. My females died while waiting for an "available" ad to be posted, as my call out for males went unanswered, just like my wahlbergii females.

 

[agent A]

I did, but my males were eaten and there were no replacements available. My females died while waiting for an "available" ad to be posted, as my call out for males went unanswered, just like my wahlbergii females.

sadly my males were too young at the time

but warpdrive and i r working on something and tammy and i also r gonna help each other with this project

 

[patrickfraser]

Good luck. I'd like to keep them again

 

[twolfe]

My original five females produced over 500 nymphs. I sold and traded with at least 14 people on the forum, but in the end, most of them were being sold to non-forum members. The last of my five original females died this month. She was 11 months old. I was hoping she would have lived another month to make it one year.

I have successfully mated two of my females from this generation and hope to have some nymphs available. However, I have a couple of friends who have females now without mates. One of the females in now in my posession. I wasn't anticipating this and was not as careful with my males and let them get eaten by the female. My two un-mated females and my friend's female in my posession are calling, but they are rejecting the male.

If anyone thinks they may have stock that is not related to mine, I'm really interested in trading. I did sell/trade ooths/nymphs that other forum members resold. So, I know a lot of them are going to trace back to me. My stock came from Philinyuma (Frey).

 

[hibiscusmile]

I have 5 or 6 mated females, not from anyone heres stock! OOths to hatch soon!

 

[agent A]

I have 5 or 6 mated females, not from anyone heres stock! OOths to hatch soon!

any unmated females that can make my male a lucky man??

maybe we could trade ooths of each other's stocks to mix up our gene pools a bit...

 

[twolfe]

I have 5 or 6 mated females, not from anyone heres stock! OOths to hatch soon!

Rebecca, we may have discussed this already, but I'm interested in trading stock with you if my ooths are fertile.

 

[Mime454]

My parents bought me this species from a pet store whenever I was about eight. I have very fine memories of this species. If you guys have any nymphs or ooths available, I would probably buy them.

 

[sinensispsyched]

I got my first wahlbergii a couple months ago, I want to raise them again. I have a sub or presub (female?) that I hope to breed and raise the babes. A wonderful species...

 

[agent A]

I got my first wahlbergii a couple months ago, I want to raise them again. I have a sub or presub (female?) that I hope to breed and raise the babes. A wonderful species...

Maybe u could send me her and after she mates with my male I'll send her back??

 

[mantid_mike]

i am starting this topic because many forum members are having difficulty breeding pseudocreobotra wahlbergii for various reasons

mainly because they r having shortages of one gender

so i have decided that if we all talk about wat we need to breed them, we can help each other out and get these guys bred

i sent many members males including mantid_mike and warpdrive and only have 1 male left but i may get 2 females and a few more males soon

i know tammy needs a male and so does rich

it seems some peeps have not enough males and some have not enough females

so let's talk about our current wahlbergii quota so we can assess the issue and help everyone breed them

I believe this is lil guy you sent me:

 

[animalexplorer]

Does anyone currently have any nymphs available? I have narrowed my focus down to only a few species so as not to get distracted or I should say overwhemed by trying to keep so many species, p.walhbergii being one of them, but I need starters.

 

[agent A]

i should have ooths and nymphs available soon

 

[Mime454]

i should have ooths and nymphs available soon

Awesome!

 

[Termite48]

It looks like an L-5 Mantid_Mike. Is this so?

 

[Termite48]

Alex: It is a good idea that you have regarding the P. wahlbergii species. Though this might work to get females mated, Tammy's concern is a really well based one, that being the genetics is getting really too closely pooled. If Rebecca has totally unrelated stock to that of Tammy's, there should be some mixing as far as possible to avoid the things that come along with too close and repeated matings of related mantids. These are small and mis-shaped oothecae (can also be poor diet), shorter life spans, shorter productive period of females, hatch count quite low (also diet related) and even more important than perhaps anything else is the stamina and vigor of the nymphs after hatching. If an ooth hatches and there are eg. 60 wallies and this number starts decreasing as the days go by from the hatch date, with no fault of the keeper, there is a chance this is due to this close breeding practice. Please do not ask me for my foot notes.