Hai , nice to see this story grows as it comes... Overhere I have set some eggs aside. It is quite difficult to tell how many eggs I have since like you tell , they are attached to stones, plants and even floating waterweeds. They specifically seem to like to attach the eggs to the central/middle area of the waterweeds. I think if I would put some flexible plastic cable into the tank that they would use it too. The eggs are quite little, the tanks is quite large and as such it is difficult to count them. So far all my animals - with the exception of one female (which is not breeding , but does certainly have some eggs in her body) - did not show any haste to get out of the water. so they seem to like wandering around in the tank. That one female on the other hand was really wanting to get out of the water and as such I have picked her out and set her bakc onto a land area. I may retry setting her in the water later (within a week or 2). I have actually seen one of the female lay eggs . In fact that female is now 4 years old and itself came from a French captive breeding. so we are at F2 overhere. I still have 2 large larvae of last years breeding now (over 12 cm). I hope to tell in a weke or so if my eggs are fertilised (watertemp is close to 3°C at the moment and development is slow)
Thank you very much for your information and experience.
Are 2 large larvae(neoteny) WC or F1(French CB) ? At what °C do you keep them in the summer ?
In my turn, I tell my experience.
After my 2nd WC breeding success, I suffered a catastrophic loss of the WC adults (and many F1 adults). In my next trial, I put one F1 female and two (or three?) F1 males in the bleeding aqua-terrarium in January(or December?). In March, she went into water area and laid eggs. I fed small larvae, but they all died from indigestion due to a cold wave. The cold wave passed away but temperature was low enough for breeding, and then I put another F1 female in the breeding tank. She also went into water area and laid eggs. After that, she stopped laying eggs and went back to land area because of temperature rising, but the temperature fell again, she started laying many eggs again. But this female laid only 40-50 eggs in the next trial.
I have 3 cases of breeding of F1. The points , different from WC breeding, are below.
1. The water temperature at which 3 F1 females entered water area was lower; about 9°C.
2. They entered water area, when it did not rain. Temperature may be a big factor for F1 breeding.
Is my English OK? I am afraid of misunderstanding.