@Jeff Hm, that's interesting about the incubation process. I know I read somewhere about them retracting their sac, just wanted to get reassured about it.
My dry gutload consists of: High quality dog food, high quality cat food, whole grain oats, and grape nuts for a little bit of sweetness. I did them pretty much all in consistent parts blending in a food processor. I don't add supplements to the gutload. The dead ones that I pick up, their heads fall off fairly easily. Is this normal since their body is decaying?
That would suck to find out that my colony is getting parasitic mites...
I mostly believe that a lot of them are dying from old age and I have a weak colony. I pull out like 10 dead a week and I'm probably left with 150 adults including 200-300 baby nymphs that have just been produced in the last couple of weeks from my colony. I give them plenty of oranges a week, high heat, and spray the sides with a spray bottle including a water bottle set in there with water gel crystals... So the humidity is good I believe. I've been only resupplying food and water every 2 days now, and cleaning out the dead ones once a week. Seems that they're breeding has picked up substantially. I'm really stoked about this, found so many baby nymphs today with a few I already see molting.
The only problem I have is... Since so many of my adults are dying per weak; I'm going to need to re-flow soon, since they're wont be a point of waiting for a bunch of baby nymphs to mature by the time my adults all die off. Do you think you'll have some large nymphs available soon? I would love to replenish my colony since I have it under control now. I need to get this colony moving since I got a hungry african bullfrog!
Overall conclusion: I'm very aroused.![]()