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First clutch of the 2012 year!!! Pastel X Fire

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Funny and not so funny of a story on this one...

I arrived at work today and just so happened to look at a couple tubs in a daze of tiredness not wanting to start work. I wasn't expecting anything yet considering I have only seen a couple ovulations just a few days ago. But as I have recently said "I work a lot and I don't see them everyday till I have to". And now it looks like the stress is going to begin. Squeeze the time in to check on the ladies every morning and mid day. I say this only because every single one of my clutches have been laid in the morning around 9-10am. lol If I had not looked at the tub I would have missed these precious little soon to be possible FireFlys. Yes a bit optimistic.. She had only 5 eggs with 2 of them being slugs. She stopped eating a bit to early I think... and I already have had a talk with her about that. haha

And ladies and gentlemen here she is the first of the year for us with many more to come...

Pastel X Fire
 

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Congrats on getting your first clutch of the season, and good luck on hitting that firefly!!
 
Congrats and good luck on 3 fireflies.

Side note, does anyone else bury their eggs? I use vermiculite as well but simply place the eggs on top of it. Not sure if this is common practice or could be an issue? Anyone else have an opinion?
 
Should be no issue. I usually bury mine about halfway, but not always (have to bury bigger ones a little more than the smaller ones, in order to fit in my incubation tubs).
 
Matt2979 said:
Should be no issue. I usually bury mine about halfway, but not always (have to bury bigger ones a little more than the smaller ones, in order to fit in my incubation tubs).
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I also usually bury mine about half way too but on this clutch I caught a little late so I felt the eggs were a little dryer then I'd like them to be.. So I covered them a little more for a few days to get them back to norm..
 
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