Plethodon Glutinosus Eggs!!!!!!!!

Congratulations! I think you should try to not disturb the female - is she guarding them?

I suspect that feeding the hatchlings could be a challenge. Do you have any small live foods available?
 
That's awesome. Jen's right, just leave her alone. If you Google a little you can probably find their incubation length. You will definitely need some springtails.

How long have you had her?
 
I've had her for almost a month and I found a spermatophore in the container a couple weeks ago so I knew the sals were up to something. Two days ago she abandoned the eggs. I just found her walking around and not gaurding the eggs so I guess she isn't into taking care of her eggs but I am keeping an eye on the development of the eggs and I have very many termites, some as big as (....) to less than (.) excluding the parentheses. I feed them to Plethodon serratus and my 2-lineds
If I have babies I will make sure to post pictures on the sight.
I had springtails but they were really really tiny.
 
There is a high failure rate when trying to hatch plethodontid eggs artificially. Just watching them typically isn't sufficient. They often need to be rinsed and stimulated to get them to hatch and the failure rate is still typically well over 80%

Ed
 
Years ago I had good luck letting a female welleri brood her eggs. Near 100% hatch and the babies ate pinheads with no trouble. Plethodon are much better parents than Aneides!
 
The embryo are forming the embryo are forming!
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Congrats, I heard it was difficult to breed them in capive set-ups.
 
any updates? these are (one of) my favourite species.

(Message edited by richierich on January 08, 2007)

(Message edited by richierich on January 08, 2007)
 
Unfortunately a few weeks past and the embryos were half developed. Then the eggs started to concave out of nowhere. I new they were probably fertile though because I found a second spermatophore on the bottom of the container. It is a mystery to me on why they concaved a few weeks before they were going to hatch. Well...There is always next breeding season and I will try again. Sorry about the bad news everyone.

On the other hand both of my female Southern Two-Lineds are full of eggs so I will have quite a few of them this spring.
 
Looks like the wild Plethodons are reproducing.

Today I ended up finding two hatchlings of this speices.

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Congrats. Better go collect some termites! I would recommend you seed your tank with springtails, they will provide a no-effort food supply for future hatchlings.
 
I have been feeding them termites and they are growing rapidly.
 
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