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HappyHillbilly
at Thu May 31 23:31:40 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HappyHillbilly ]
Thanks for taking a look & giving me your input, Kelly, I appreciate it.
Watch this preemie be the only one to have that pattern. (banging my head on the keyboard)
I didn't think it was due to the pigment on its back not having completely developed yet but wasn't sure. The side pattern seems too well defined for that to be the case.
Kelly wrote; "As you experienced, the challenge of maternal incubation is not too much humidity, it's keeping the humidity high enough to avoid dessicating the eggs."
Yeah, but if I had known that misting didn't ruin the other eggs I would've left 'em in there with her and just kept on spraying her down. That's what I was doing at first, and then after about a week I noticed a few eggs on top of the clutch going bad, starting to smell. I assumed it was because the water ran down between her coils and ruined the eggs, especially since most of the ones that went bad were on top. Ever since then, for the last month and a half, I've been taking great care to mist all around her, trying not to get her wet.
Ahh, the price of ignorance! I read a lot of material on breeding, what little I could find, but knowledge alone can't teach you everything.
One last question and I'll leave you be, sport. What do you consider to be an acceptable temperature range (min./max.) using the aquarium incubator setup I'm using? Temps have held good so far but just in case they start fluctuating, I'd like to know.
Thanks, again! I'll be sure to let you know how things turn out.
Take care!
HH
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RE: Interesting pattern and ....... - HappyHillbilly, Thu May 31 23:31:40 2007