I also read where Schilde mentions diapause in the redcheeks but as I mentioned I never had heard that before. But then, I was breeding my redcheeks over 20 years ago and there was NO INFORMATION available at all.

While I have three adult females right now, I have no adult male and so my experiences are from a trio that I maintained years ago (1980 to 1989). I know that for the first couple of years I got no hatching and all of my eggs went bad. But then after about the third season I got nearly 100% hatch rate. In fact, I gave one of my females away as I was getting too many hatchlings to deal with....this was long before the Internet, reptile expos and reptile keepers being as connected as we are now.

But you raise a good question and I will ask a friend who is currently breeding cruentatum and see what he says. I am fairly sure that he doesn't do anything special for his eggs though.

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