Baby Silks OMG!

[KatCham]

So, I've been waiting to get an incubator setup sorted for starting to rear silks and had left eggs where they were as I'd not managed to get them to the fridge.

Some have hatched!!! The babies are TEEEEEEEEEEENY!!! Will they be ok even though they haven't been in the fridge?

Have put some chow in for them and some damp tissue to keep humid. Have put them near the radiator to keep them a bit warmer and this should help with humidity too with the damp towel being in there.

PANIC! Must order more chow!!!

Have put the rest of the eggs in the fridge so no more hatchhopefully!!

MENTAL how these tiny teeny lil blips turn into humongous fat worms that chams LOVE!!! HAHA!!

 

[Chameleonic]

If you need food ASAP then don't forget they will happily eat Dandelion. Might also help keep humidity up to have some leaves in there. good luck, I've never bred silks myself.

 

[Miss Lily]

Wooooo! Well done! They don't actually eat that much when they are small. I found the food tends to dry out before they can eat it.

I hate to say it, but if they have started to hatch, then you may have killed them off by putting them in the fridge now. Usually the rest hatch within a day or so. I kept my eggs in the fridge door and some still hatched! So I moved them to the back of the top shelf. I haven't had any hatch at all yet and it's been about a month now. Usually they hatch within a week to 10 days of taking them out. I feel that after all my efforts to breed them and get the eggs, I messed up by not keeping them cold enough, when maybe they would have all hatched if I had left them at room temps anyway.

 

[Robyrango]

Congrats! They're tiny al right!
It seems to me it's taking forever for them to grow! About 300 hatched on the 19th of March! I'm struggling!
The nicest part is still yet to come.. See them spinning to make a cocoon and then turn into moths is pretty cool!

 

[KatCham]

I suppose time will tell.

Way too many to have them all just hatch. Would waste most of them as I wouldn't get them fed off in time.

They were laid over the course of about 2-3 weeks so hopefully some of them should be ok.

Just enough to feed Simba for a while n get some to moth stage, then more eggs would be good.

Like I say, got LOADS so hopefully some of them will be ok.

When u look at the size of the hatchlings it must take FOREVER to feed them up to 'feeding to cham' size!!

 

[Miss Lily]

I think if you keep them warmer (not sure for the temp though) they grow faster. I kept mine at room temp and it took over 3 months from hatching to get to the spinning stage! Mine hatched in mid December and I was getting eggs laid at the end of Feb beginning of March. They are really tiny! I used a white bristled kiddies paint brush to sweep them off the food and move them to new.

 

[KatCham]

I've got them near the radiator so they'll be warmer than just room temp.

I've been using a little paint brush to move them but I think I'll try n find a white bristled one as they are a pain to see!!