mantids

[buzz]

so i know you are able feed your chameleons mantids. But i was wondering what kind should you feed them? aren't there many different types?

 

[Ekaj13]

There aren't any you can't feed as far as I know.

 

[Ace]

chinese mantids are common to feed off...though only if you have a small cham...

rasing them from an egg sac would be a waist of time....but if oyu got them in the wild and gutload it with a cricket and some flies then i dont see why not

 

[ponders]

rasing them from an egg sac would be a waist of time....but if oyu got them in the wild and gutload it with a cricket and some flies then i dont see why not

Actually, It not a waste of time if you enjoy feeding them (who doesn't have an extra crickets) and watching them grow The hard part is feeding them off after you've raised them for months!

 

[Ace]

Actually, It not a waste of time if you enjoy feeding them (who doesn't have an extra crickets) and watching them grow The hard part is feeding them off after you've raised them for months!

lol...you are right

im gots me a couple of egg cases, who am i kidding..for the most part i thought i would let a few go in my front yar, a few cannibaslize, and then some raise to adults for the feeding

sounds hard, but am eager to try

 

[melric]

I hatched out some mantid's last week. They all pretty much ate each other even with pinheads and ff. I only have about 5 left.

But, I haven't heard of any you can't feed either. I'd go with chinese, they're the least expensive.

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

chinese mantids are common to feed off...though only if you have a small cham...

rasing them from an egg sac would be a waist of time....but if oyu got them in the wild and gutload it with a cricket and some flies then i dont see why not

I've raised two ooths up to adult size and although it can be a fiasco trying to keep them and their fruit flies in while feeding them it took a lot less effort than I thought it would! Even though I allowed fairly rampant cannibalism because there was no way I was going to have 50+ individual cages for them when they got bigger, I still had more than I wanted so I fed off the excess early. Fruit flies last a long time with miomantises because they don't get that big as adults and then they eat crickets after that, which I have plenty of. It was kind of fun raising them all actually, and they're decently hard to kill.

I'm on my third gen but it looks like all the ones I kept were males so far...and with a petsitter coming for a week for spring break I think I'm just going to feed them all off so there's less to worry about for them. All my real pets are challenging enough!