Crocodylidae
Arachnosquire
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Hello,
So as I talked about..a lot of times, I've had a couple of Hierodula majuscula since eight months now. One male and one female.
They had their first molt as adults not long ago; the male was the first one to be adult, the female took a bit longer. What I noticed always with the female is that she was very voracious- she could see one worm slightly moving and jump on it after a few seconds, but the male seemed to eat less espescially in the last few days. A few days ago, I looked at him and thought that he looked pretty skinny; in his terrarium, he had a small bowl with worms in it, and I would often put worms right in front of him, but he most of the time didn't eat. I think in the last four days he probably ate like..just one worm?
Yesterday I tried to feed him again but he looked at the worm and then just walked away, I also felt like compared to the rest of the months yesterday he looked a bit more 'weak' (had a bit less grip on my hands) than usual. So, this was the evening, and after trying to feed him and fail at it, I left him in his terrarium. In his terrarium there was one empty pot lying where he could hide, usually he was never going there or very rarely but yesterday he just walked in the hide and this morning I found the male on the back in the hide, dead. I was wondering about it, I know some animals like cats isolate themselves/get in a dark place when they feel like they are going to die, does it do the same to insects?
Does anyone have any ideas if I'm the one who was guilty of his death by not feeding him enough (he was pretty skinny but not extremely skinny), or was it just old age?
I remember trying to feed him a young superworm a few days ago as well, and he just ate a tiny bit of the worm and threw it away. I thought to myself that he probably just did it because either he wasn't hungry or didn't like superworms, but do you think the superworm could have had a disease or whatever and make him die, or it's very unlikely?
(The superworm looked pretty normal, also, when my mantis died, the death looked pretty normal, no signs of disease as far as I know, but, I still would like opinions on it)
Also, would it be safe to put the female in his terrarium now that he died in it, or risky? I don't want to make her sick but I'm not sure if he just died of old age or not.
Other question: I really want to preserve him but I'm not sure how, I don't have much material for it
Thanks if anyone answer!
So as I talked about..a lot of times, I've had a couple of Hierodula majuscula since eight months now. One male and one female.
They had their first molt as adults not long ago; the male was the first one to be adult, the female took a bit longer. What I noticed always with the female is that she was very voracious- she could see one worm slightly moving and jump on it after a few seconds, but the male seemed to eat less espescially in the last few days. A few days ago, I looked at him and thought that he looked pretty skinny; in his terrarium, he had a small bowl with worms in it, and I would often put worms right in front of him, but he most of the time didn't eat. I think in the last four days he probably ate like..just one worm?
Yesterday I tried to feed him again but he looked at the worm and then just walked away, I also felt like compared to the rest of the months yesterday he looked a bit more 'weak' (had a bit less grip on my hands) than usual. So, this was the evening, and after trying to feed him and fail at it, I left him in his terrarium. In his terrarium there was one empty pot lying where he could hide, usually he was never going there or very rarely but yesterday he just walked in the hide and this morning I found the male on the back in the hide, dead. I was wondering about it, I know some animals like cats isolate themselves/get in a dark place when they feel like they are going to die, does it do the same to insects?
Does anyone have any ideas if I'm the one who was guilty of his death by not feeding him enough (he was pretty skinny but not extremely skinny), or was it just old age?
I remember trying to feed him a young superworm a few days ago as well, and he just ate a tiny bit of the worm and threw it away. I thought to myself that he probably just did it because either he wasn't hungry or didn't like superworms, but do you think the superworm could have had a disease or whatever and make him die, or it's very unlikely?
(The superworm looked pretty normal, also, when my mantis died, the death looked pretty normal, no signs of disease as far as I know, but, I still would like opinions on it)
Also, would it be safe to put the female in his terrarium now that he died in it, or risky? I don't want to make her sick but I'm not sure if he just died of old age or not.
Other question: I really want to preserve him but I'm not sure how, I don't have much material for it
Thanks if anyone answer!
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