No they don't always do anything.

With maternal incubation OR in an incubator you frequently end up in a race between a pathogen and how fast the eggs can hatch. Sometimes you lose none and sometimes you lose them all. I even remember reading somewhere (I wish I could remember where) that babies will try to hatch earlier in the presence of a pathogen.

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• Can you tell which are slugs? - Doug T, Thu May 14 13:29:28 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - captnemo, Thu May 14 16:52:12 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - Doug T, Thu May 14 19:15:17 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - captnemo, Thu May 14 20:54:19 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - zach_whitman, Thu May 14 18:01:07 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - Doug T, Thu May 14 19:16:27 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - Jaykis, Fri May 15 10:48:20 2009
• Not true. - zach_whitman, Fri May 15 11:27:20 2009
• RE: Not true. - captnemo, Fri May 15 16:52:32 2009
• RE: Not true. - Jaykis, Fri May 15 23:51:15 2009
• RE: Not true. - derekroddy, Sat May 16 08:58:57 2009
• RE: Not true. - derekroddy, Sat May 16 09:00:42 2009
• RE: Not true. - Jaykis, Sat May 16 21:29:02 2009
• RE: Not true. - zach_whitman, Sun May 17 12:52:59 2009
• RE: Not true. - captnemo, Sun May 17 13:14:42 2009
• RE: Not true. - Jaykis, Mon May 18 16:49:27 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - derekroddy, Thu May 14 20:20:23 2009
• RE: Can you tell which are slugs? - Snakesunlimited1, Thu May 14 20:38:30 2009