It hatched!

[matt020593]

My Chinese ooth hatched!:D
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj133/Matt020593/P3090089-1.jpg
Their hatching container^
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj133/Matt020593/P3090093-1.jpg
Their new home^:D
I have no idea how i'm going to get the cricket tub out of their new cage but oh well I don't need to for now lol
When should I start to offer them food?

Matt.

[Insectchat]

Congrats Matt! Although, these chinese have been like pests in my life...I'm sure you'll feel the same in a couple of week :p

After about 3 days, introduce some fruit flies into the enclosure. Make sure you separate them out to minimise stress, otherwise you will see a lot of fatalities. Just try and get them in batch of about 20...if you CAN. If not, then just be prepared to loose a fair few.

Keep us updated with how you get on.

[matt020593]

Lmao, I probably will.
So you meen like seperate them out into groups of 20?

Thanks.

[Insectchat]

Yea, that's I did. I found huge fatalities with these if they were kept in larger groups. In fact, the highest survival rate was when they hatched loose in my bug house, and I just left them to it. Put a few fruit fly cultures around the place, and they lives on the walls/plants/windows.

[matt020593]

Right well i've started splitting them up, they're very uncoperative aren't they lol.If only I could let them loose in my house lol, not sure my mum would be happy about it though. I might let a few loose in my main Anoles cage.

[muleyyy]

wowwee what are you going to do with all those??

[filipino]

yeah your right muleyyy! what are you going to all slings matt???or else give a few sling to me hahahaha im just kidding matt

[matt020593]

What do you meen by 'slings'? lol.

[matt020593]

wowwee what are you going to do with all those??

Not a clue really, I was planning on selling them but there's loads for sale at the moment! Oh well, its worth a try lol.

[muleyyy]

pet shops, local newspaper sort of thing? ebay perhaps?

[Insectchat]

Pet shops will buy a couple, but really you will get a lot of deaths.

I think filipino was referring to baby spiders there (slings I believe is the term for a "spiderling"), maybe he meant nymph? :)

[matt020593]

pet shops, local newspaper sort of thing? ebay perhaps?
Yeah I was planning on selling them on eBay. I must think of a cunning plan to make people buy mine lol;)... I'll probs just advertize everywhere lol:).

Pet shops will buy a couple, but really you will get a lot of deaths.

I think filipino was referring to baby spiders there (slings I believe is the term for a "spiderling"), maybe he meant nymph? :)

Yeah I thought he meant something like that. I'll have to ask my local pet shops but I doubt they will take nymphs.
If only I had a full room to fill with mantids...

[hibiscusmile]

I give mine food the second day of life, a lot dont but I do and a lot of them eat too. Just do it and watch them, they will eat!

[matt020593]

Most of them have started eating today:). A few ate yesterday after about 8/10 hours after hatching, but I only gave them a few to see if they would.

[hibiscusmile]

:oIan, how does your mum put up with you:confused:

[Insectchat]

She has a club with nails knocked into the end... it ususally puts me in shape :D