What to feed Platymeris biggatus nymphs

[Ben500]

Hello good day, I have a question: do Platymeris biguttatus regenerate their legs?
I have a subadult (doesn't have the two white spots yet) and one of the middle legs is missing.

Will it regenerate them in the next moult? or does it not regenerate them? Cheers

 

[me and my Ts]

Update: so I finally have babies, about ten right now, and I’ve tried feeding them prekilled mealworms and fruit flies however they won’t eat them

 

[me and my Ts]

Hello good day, I have a question: do Platymeris biguttatus regenerate their legs?
I have a subadult (doesn't have the two white spots yet) and one of the middle legs is missing.

Will it regenerate them in the next moult? or does it not regenerate them? Cheers

Sorry, I never saw this but I assume they will if they haven’t already

 

[MasterOogway]

Update: so I finally have babies, about ten right now, and I’ve tried feeding them prekilled mealworms and fruit flies however they won’t eat them

I've frequently had nymphs not eat until well into their first instar at the earliest, give them some time.

 

[me and my Ts]

I've frequently had nymphs not eat until well into their first instar at the earliest, give them some time.

Ok, thank you

 

[me and my Ts]

Just gave them a prekilled cricket but cannibalism has unfortunately begun, 2 are currently being eaten, should I separate them?

 

[Salmonsaladsandwich]

Just gave them a prekilled cricket but cannibalism has unfortunately begun, 2 are currently being eaten, should I separate them?

If you don't have many adults and eggs it might be a good idea to separate them for now.

Though they'll sometimes eat prekilled food they're usually a lot more enthusiastic about living food, if you have small mealworms I'd put them in enclosures without loose substrate where the mealworms could burrow and feed them those. Hatchling biguttatus can take down prey bigger than themselves.

 

[Introvertebrate]

double post.

 

[Introvertebrate]

Platymeris will eat basically any insect, but they definitely should not be fed a diet of exclusively crickets. Anecdotally colonies tend to die off if fed exclusively crickets, and someone did an experiment (here) where they found that nymphs fed exclusively crickets had a 0% survival rate. The best growth and survival rates were from feeding a variety of insects and the best exclusive diet was dubia roaches. So, the best way to feed Platymeris is probably to give them mostly roaches but vary it with other prey.

Is that what you feed yours? Roaches and other prey? May I ask what other prey?