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Here is a photo of one of my beauties.

not lepidogaster but coronata, very cool and easy to keep, mine produced eggs every month.

Are you saying that my photo is of Coronata? These were purchased as lepidogaster.

I have a group of 3.1 that have been identified as coronata but I would like to know how to be sure that is what they are. I have 7 eggs, 5-6 of which appear to be good at day 40. I had a similar group of eggs earlier but they didn't hatch, not sure why. At first my group was one happy family (so it seemed) but then the one male took over and for a while I had to separate the other 2 males and even considered separating the female as he was definitely causing them to be in stress coloration (dark) and hiding and looking thinner. I finally put them back together and things don't seem as bad currently. Thanks for any info.

I have always segregated my males and introduced them to the ladies over a 10 day period. Pulled them out and reintroduced another male. If the cage is large enough maybe 2.1 could coexist, but 3.1 is pushing it. Secondly, I know from prior experience that males tend to dominate in the food chain. That really has to be taken into consideration.

You can have allot of food and some will starve unless you keep them not only segregated, but make certain they do not even see each other. Let me know how the eggs turn out. Also if you have any other photos of your incubating them, I would love to see pictures. fruitflies1@bellsouth.net JERRY