Re: N. elongatus KE 01

[Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

Fully eyed up means that the iris is well-developed and clearly visible. If 
you think you are leaving them too long I guess I can only suggest looking 
early for this sign and, if present, try wetting them.

Barry

At 07:45 PM 8/12/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Thanks for the reply Prof. Cooper,
>
> > I've found
> > that I can store the eggs of this species for 4-6 months and get good
> > hatches. The moral of the story is, don't use some hard and fast rule
> > for time.
>
>My eggs eye-up in as little as 6 weeks! but I've been getting a high
>percentage of belly sliders and no fry on rewetting. (Panic panic
>panic!) I'm afriad that the belly sliders are from peat left too
>long... If they hatch too soon I've seen the fry to still have small
>yolk sacs which are absent in these belly-slider fry.
>
> > Watch the eggs for development and wet them when they are
> > fully eyed up. Everyone's conditions are a bit different.
>
>Define fully eye-up... I can see the gold/copper of their eyes in
>mine.
>
>Regards
>
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Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
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