PrincessPurple
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Yay! Butterfly laid her first (and mine!!!) clutch yesterday. We got 15 eggs in total and all appear to be viable - no slugs! I'm very excited!
I caught her laying under the paper, rather than in the nice, cosy lay box that she has spent the past week or so dozing in. She'd laid a 5-clump in a coil of herself, which then stuck to the newspaper. Poor girl didn't want to give them up!
I was sooo nervous removing the clump, my hands were shaking, and it was made worse by my neurological tremors! We removed the rest throughout the evening as she laid them.
Now that she is resting and recovering (still asleep in the same place the following morning).
What sort of aftercare does she need now? She's had access to fresh water all throughout. I've got some smaller than usual mice, and plan to feed her up every 4 days on the smaller portions.
The eggs are incubating in my herp nursery, at around 26-28 Celcius. They're on a bed of sphagnum moss, covered over with more, and sealed up in a tupperware box.
Is there anything else I have missed?
I caught her laying under the paper, rather than in the nice, cosy lay box that she has spent the past week or so dozing in. She'd laid a 5-clump in a coil of herself, which then stuck to the newspaper. Poor girl didn't want to give them up!
I was sooo nervous removing the clump, my hands were shaking, and it was made worse by my neurological tremors! We removed the rest throughout the evening as she laid them.
Now that she is resting and recovering (still asleep in the same place the following morning).
What sort of aftercare does she need now? She's had access to fresh water all throughout. I've got some smaller than usual mice, and plan to feed her up every 4 days on the smaller portions.
The eggs are incubating in my herp nursery, at around 26-28 Celcius. They're on a bed of sphagnum moss, covered over with more, and sealed up in a tupperware box.
Is there anything else I have missed?
nice incubator, is that really what it is?