Something's missing..........

[paris]

i rinsed these earlier in the night and looked in on them a few hours later.....

 

[ira]

so where are the larva?

 

[paris]

....funny you should ask......

 

[danny]

Congrats Paris! How many larvae did you have to care for now?

 

[paris]

geeze-i dunno....i dont have enough fingers and toes to count that high....

 

[jarid]

Congrats Paris.

 

[javier]

Congrats Paris!!! You are a lucky man.

 

[jarid]

You mean lucky woman.

 

[paris]

here are a few spare photos-the larvae are like most paramesotriton larvae - they are black with white around the fringe of the tail and pink gills and white around the eyes. there are 4 legs -well sort of legs, there are two forward stumps but they are very rudimentary-no definition past the elbow-they just seem to stop. there are 2 very small elongate bumps at the rear end -these look to be rear legs. i wish to get a better camera someday.....i can see more stuff with my eye that i can show in a photograph-these are about as long as my thumbnail across - 1/2 inch.

even though these 6 eggs were laid within a week of each other - 5 of the 6 hatched at the same time-the string of 3 seemed to have been laid at the same time. after most hatched there was one left behind. i picked it up to check it out, it was still very firm

they arent like cynops or triturus eggs in the the skin lessens and the larvae eventually works it way out when it feel like it. when i was holding it it just popped and the larvae was sitting on my hand -it was a very fast process. if you look at these photos you can still see the artifacts of the cramped conditions in the eggs-they have an hourglass figure from the fold area. this is the hatchling that just popped out

 

[mark]

Congrats! That is awesome, I just saw my first Paramesotriton hongkongensis eggs today. It makes you feel proud.

 

[juraj]

Congrats and good luck !

 

[chris]

Paris - make sure ytou don't introduce any cyclops as food. I used these a lot for Triturus larvae and assumed they would be fine for Paramesotriton. The cyclops ate most of my larvae alive over night.
Congrats and good luck!
Chris