This weekend's hatch did not really go as planned, On friday i had planned to pull the tile later in the day as usual again (10th day). I had placed an order to restock my clean up crew in the dt, so i had the fun task of turning over snails that needed help getting started so my hands were in the tank while doing that i noticed that the female was doing allot of cleaning around the batch that was there, she was pretty swollen as well, i had the feeling she was going to lay again a bit early (another double clutch) i kept an eye on her while working on the tank, after a while i decided to grab a beer and let her have a few minutes without my hands in the tank & see what she was going to do. Well i came back to the tank, 5 or so minutes later & she had started to lay another clutch! she only had about 4 new eggs down so i grabbed my tupperware bowl & the tile, gave her a new clean tile and off to the garage i went. I setup the tile & bubbler and hoped for the best as i have not had the best of luck trying to aerate the eggs for any length of time.
For the tile batch i had probably less than 50% hatch rate as many turned white on the tile and died.
I left the dt tank alone for the next hour or so and she finished laying the batch that she had started on the new tile. So if i had not been around i would have had another double clutch.
I wonder why? (the double clutch??) issue; is her internal clock off or what?
