I have three grandis hatchlings (about 3-6 wks old)
living together in a planted 5gal tank. There are two
more pairs of eggs in the incubator. What size range
can safely be put together? At what age can I sex
them, and at what age to they need to be separated?
(Can females be left together happily?)
Also, last year my female mostly laid singles (i.e.,
laid one egg one day in one place and another the next
day somewhere else). The last clutch was a doublet,
glued together. One of the doublet hatched, and a
little crack appeared in the other the same day, like
a nose pecking its way out, but it never hatched and
when I opened the egg there was a fully developed,
dead, hatchling.
This year my female laid one pair as singles and the
rest have been doublets, making 4 or 5 pairs laid so
far (two of them still "cooking"). Both of the
singles hatched, but of the doublets that hatched, the
same thing happened again; one hatched, the other
almost did. Any ideas?
I dust my adults crix every feeding with Mineral-I
this time of year (every other feeding in off-season),
and there is a little dish of it that she has
unlimited access to, and has used. The eggs are in a
hovabator in now-slightly-moist vermiculite in a
closed plastic container with 3/4" x 1/8" (approx)
slits all the way around the top. I keep an open dish
of water in the incubator, although I have lost the
hygrometer (gotta get a new one, I know). The temps
were a little high earlier this summer-around 84-85,
but I've gotten it down to 81-82.
Last question. Are captive hatched hatchlings
guaranteed parasite-free at hatching, or are there
some parasites that can be transmitted to the egg from
the parent? Where do most parasites that get into cb
gex come from, crix? Can you de-parasitize an invert?
Thanks!
Camille
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