Baby henk #1 hatched out last night!! Great news after the week I've had...This egg was the third from my single-egg/clutch female (1st two eggs didn't make it). Still waiting on two more...AND YES I'M PLANNING ON POSTING PICTURES!
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New arrival
Whoboy
Apr 23, 2005 10:35 PM
Replies (7)
bsmith251
Apr 23, 2005 10:41 PM
Congrats Sean... get the others to hatch so we can talk bloodline trades... once finals wind down we'll be talkin more...
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Ben
flamedcrestie
Apr 23, 2005 10:56 PM
can't have too many cb uroplatus
umop_apisdn
Apr 23, 2005 11:16 PM
haha thats what i said!
boy
Apr 25, 2005 04:44 PM
...sniffle sniffle...
Y'all just keep rubbing that in this season. thanks... I get the eggs but none of them are hatching or they get those darn maggots that kill healthy eggs.
...sniffle sniffle...
umop_apisdn
Apr 25, 2005 06:11 PM
i would suggest you either change incubation medium, or at least start up a new enclosure for your incubation. i know ive talked to you a million times, but i cant remember exactly how the actual setup goes. just to reiterate, heres how my incubation setup goes: one of those medium sized gladware tubs with holes poke in the top, perlite about an inch deep, kept pretty moist, but not so moist that i can see water at the bottom of the perlite. i keep it all moist to the touch. i keep all the eggs about half-buried in the perlite, and i pick up the eggs about once a week or so to make sure that there isnt anything like what you've got, not to mention to make sure no eggs go bad and start molding, which i fear could spread to other eggs. last season my setup was much simpler. i actually had a cube that i set up from 6 2-inch pieces of metal screen patches. it simply had peat moss at the bottom, i would make a shallow depression in the peat moss and place the eggs in there. i successfully hatched a few eggs that way by just keeping them in the tank with the parents. theres several reasons i changed over: 1)collembolans tend to thrive in my setups and i suspect they might be able to get into eggs after some time, 2) i have so many eggs now they'd never fit, 3) it was so small that it was difficult to put eggs in without possibly rotating them, 4) theres the possibility the adults could knock over the setup.
boy
Apr 25, 2005 06:54 PM
...too much stress on my part I'm assuming. I've worn myself a bit thin this year as it is with the two jobs. I just quit one yesterday, so thats a few extra days back in my life. Hopefully that will make a difference.
Jason
PHEve
Apr 25, 2005 10:07 AM
New little Henk to ad to the forum , hehehehehe where are the pics? 
Super cool, glad he hatched okay. Can't wait for mine 
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PHEve/ Eve
