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After 38 days our first clutch of anthills is starting to immerge from their eggs. Hopefully we'll copy-cat Zach and have all 6 come out! Used a penny in these pics for comparison.

Awesome. Congrats.

Now the fun part starts.

Last night one of mine ate a FT pink! WOOO HOOO

Cool! I know they're hard to get going. We've had to start a couple from heads alone. Bleh

I just tried something interesting that I think actually worked pretty well. I sexed my clutch using illumination.

I took a flashlight and taped over it with black electrical tape so that just a hairline slit of light shown through. Then turn out the light and hold a baby anthills tail up to the light. In one the tail has a bright red patch where the hemipene is vascularized. The others don't have anything. I'll probe them to be sure, but I would bet money I have 1 male and 5 females.

As a side note, you can also see every other organ in their body... pretty cool if you like that kind of thing.

That's a neat idea - we'll give it a shot!