Congrats ! I hope you get a fertile group!! Good luck

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Congrats Chad! Hopefully they are fertile, they look really good. Since no one really knows much about them maybe 4 mo gestation is normal. Fingers crossed! After Bella's recovered, they'll have to try again.

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Congrats! I love these guys and I really wish you the best of luck with the eggs! Here's to hoping we are looking at some baby pictures in the future!

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You are what you eat. Therefore, I am fast, easy and cheap.....

Hi Chad - Congratulations to you and Bella!!!!!
She is so cute and looks good. Hope you get much babies......


I wanna have a Matschiei-girl too for our male!!!!
Last week he took the first sunbath at the balcony door....


Greetings Peter


.... my fiancee has seen the pictures of your Bella - she loves her and want a girl too.

Absolutely amazing photo, Peter!!!!

Chad, I wouldnt candle any of the eggs. Just seems like too much fooling with them to me. I candled a few pardalis eggs from the first clutches I had and those eggs never hatched I would just wait to see what they do.

Thank you Cain.



Chad - try to incubate the eggs at 72° Fahrenheit by day and 63° F at night. After 6 months you have to raise the temperature by 5° F.

Try to split the clutch in 2, 3 or 4 parts and incubate them at different places. Maybe you can breed not all eggs with this way, but in my opinion its better to get some babies than none.

Peter

Bad news...out of 26 eggs, only 7 have resisted molding over. I am not very hopeful that these will be viable but I will continue to incubate. I have no idea how long a Matschiei can retain sperm or even if there was a mating during the visit in late December. Hoping for better luck this summer.

On a positive note, Bella has rebounded quite well. She took another day after laying to begin eating and drinking. It was a serious patience test for me because I was beginning to get frantic with all the weight she had lost. Her energy was down to ZERO and then...all of sudden she started snagging flies, mantis, crickets, and phoenix worms. Now she acts like nothing every happened.

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What a bummer Chad, will just keep hoping for the rest to survive. I had the same issue with my quad from Elisa. There was no data available on retained clutches. The first was fertile, the third molded over and I am hoping for clutch # 2 to start hatching any day.

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Laurie

Bah....that's bad news, but if you don't know if there was a mating then you can't be too bummed out about it. This might be the first clutch of many in her long life AND those 7 eggs might still thrive.

Are we gonna see any of this species imported this year?

We can still have hope for the 7 though! Out of the 10 tenuis eggs I got only 3 are still viable. Lets keep our fingers crossed for the both of us!!!! Glad to hear the female has bounced back!