Just got off the phone with my friend who produces the cruentatum. He does NOT cool them in any way and incubates them normally. He does mention that the eggs might sit full term and not hatch until he makes them quite 'wet'. This seems logical to me but I wouldn't call that diapause though.
He did say, and you probably already know this, that Staurotypus DO require a diapause.
I could obtain a wild caught male cruentatum here in the States fairly easily but I have been trying to get a nice captive hatched one. The frustrating part for me is that in the past four years I have bought about a half dozen and raised them up only to have them all be females!
Nice animals BTW...thanks for the photos.

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