Thanks for the info. on the show. I was just curious. Although, I can't see your eggs directly, I've had eggs that look totally deflated and shriveled hatch. Also, I am suprized that you are misting them directly. I never did that and remember being told not to. I would keep a small cup of water in the container with them and keep the eggs sort of covered with a paper towel to absorb excess moisture that may form on the outside of the egg. Again, I also never removed bad eggs for fear of damaging the good ones that were attached to them and never had any problems. Although I have been generally successful with incubation of my eggs (graybands, ball pythons, tortoises, etc.), I really appreciate the live-bearers much more. They do all the work for you!



Sorry to hear of your general lack of good luck down around Anza. With the exception of my trip to Belize and Guatemala, and various surveys at work, I haven't done much herping this year. I've been too busy with the new kid and all. No complaints though, I've had some great experiences with both the kid and the herping I've been fortunate enough to do. On my trip to Central America, I caught and saw all kinds of cool stuff. Highlights included fer-de-lance, clouded snail sucker, red-backed coffee snake, red-earth centepede snake, Schmidt's 5-striped snake (which envonomated me!), Morellet's crocs, all kinds of geckos, frogs, toads, hundreds of red-rumped tarantulas including females with hatching egg sacks, 100's of babies), pink toes, and lots of tailess whip scorpions.



No, I do not live in the high desert, although I work up there quite often. I'm in the Redlands area. I would like to get out with you one of these days, however finding time to do so is difficult. You should try to make it to the Sept. meeting.



Mike

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