Black arboreal eggs

[rust]

Well, it's that time of year again where I start removing eggs from my Aneides before they hatch. This is a clutch of black arboreals (A.f.flavipunctatus), they should hatch in about 10 days.

 

[coendeurloo]

Great Russ! Never seen those before, nice achievement.

 

[Jake]

Great work Russ!
How do you remove the eggs, or do you just remove the object they're laid on?

 

[petro]

Incredible!
I thought it was already strange that salamanders put there eggs on the land,but this
is more remarkable than that.(Help!The eggs off aliens!!!!)
A nice picture indeed,also a question my side;How do you remove them?
Petro

 

[rust]

I do just remove the cover they are attached to and place them in a seperate container. Remarkably all three Aneides species I'm currently breeding consistantly use the clay pot bottoms for nesting, even though they could use other cover that's provided.

I'll really stoked now, I found a nice large clutch of A.lugubris eggs yesterday that are from my albino male!

 

[taherman]

That's awesome. Great job as usual.

-Tim

 

[rust]

Well, they're all hatching. No pics though, my digital camera got wet while looking for benders this week in WV. That's the third one I've destroyed while herping, my wife is going to kill me.

 

[taherman]

I just picked up a waterproof housing for mine for Sept. Check out Canon, they make relatively cheap waterproof housings (~$150) for most of their models. I've been very happy with mine after owning, and destroying, two Sonys.

 

[rust]

Good idea. It was quite the trip: destroyed camera, rear-ended a van with my Wrangler, left my phone charger at the B&B I stayed at, and ate something contaminated on the way home.

 

[John]

Good idea. It was quite the trip: destroyed camera, rear-ended a van with my Wrangler, left my phone charger at the B&B I stayed at, and ate something contaminated on the way home.

Bad things happening to good people always gets me down. I hope everything gets resolved with the minimum of pain.

 

[rust]

Thanks for the thought. I think it followed the proverb of "when it rains it pours".