Yeah, they all eat regularly. I just check their eyes to be sure they shed right, but I'll check the sheds next time, thanks for the advice. And yeah, I have them on coco fiber.

As far as the getting sick thing, all creatures get sick because their body is weak. If conditions are right and food is nutritious, any creature should be able to handle any disease thrown at it. Yeah, I'm one of those hippie freaks, but I wouldn't believe it if I haven't experienced it in many ways. Now that my dog gets real food, not that garbage we know as dog food, she doesn't get fleas, same with the cat. Now that I've stopped eating processed food and so forth (I could go on for pages on this) I rarely get sick and when I do I'm over it in no time. Mosquitoes rarely bother me anymore, and all my previous allergies are gone. My comment sounded off hand, but is way more complex and thought out then it came across.

As far as the males combating, my guys (well, girl and guy...lol) just slid off to opposite sides of the tank when done. They have enough room to get away, and two spots to hide (I'm working on another....) so the loser can get away.

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Hi,





Maternal incubation can certainly happen - but you need to be very specific in the conditions you provide to enable the female to be able to do it successfully. She won't eat at this time and will be skinny as all get go. So by the time she hatches the eggs she probably won't have eaten anything for 90 days or so.



dr del
Tell me more about these conditions? I have a tank that I could put her in while she incubates if I decide the males are going to be a problem. Yeah, going without food that long is going to be hard on her, but if she couldn't handle it, we wouldn't have bp's, they'd of all died out long before we started keeping them as pets.

Thanks so much for your responses btw, I do appreciate your opinion and experience.