Thanks a lot for asking! Really weird to always have been thinking that I should diapause them, and then find out I don't. I will be alert though: as I said before, my first clutch never started developing until I cooled them (and did show white bands). Maybe MOST clutches do not require diapause, just like Kinosternon baurii autumn ones apparently sometimes do, whereas spring clutches don't.

Maik Schilde says the same thing about increasing humidity at the end of incubation. That's another mindbreaker for me, as I suspect my first developing clutch to have 'drowned' close to hatching, as a result of the substrate being too humid (though not wet). Oh well...I'll see what happens with the current clutch.



I can relate to the problem of captive-bred males: hardly any CB male Kinosternids are available in Europe, either. The incubation temperatures that are used must all be too high...I am experimenting a bit with K. baurii and Sternotherus minor eggs, but it's much too soon to draw conclusions.



Thanks again!

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