Quote Originally Posted by Daigga View Post
Do you know what happened to cause the under bites? I'm waiting on my big girl to finish cooking my first ever clutch, and I want to be prepared when she finally lays.

For this particular clutch I think I'll be able to talk myself out of keeping too many, (normal x lesser bee), though If I happen to hatch out a lesser bee female I won't be able to say no to myself (or maybe a nice lesser... or spider...). There are future clutches I have planned that I'll have a much harder time letting go of, particularly my mojave x lesser bee (can you keep too many BEL's?), and my bumblebee x calico pastel (calico killer bee? Keep? Sell? KEEP?). My bumblebee and my mojave will both be up to breeding size at the same time, so I'm just going to be all over the place when they go. Not until late next year at the earliest, but still...
The under bite came from a yellowbelly 100% het albino to albino female. We know that the yellowbelly male had not issues with another clutch. Those babies came out perfectly healthy. So we either think the pairing was a bad pairing or the albino girl is just not a good girl to breed. The incubator never lost electricity and was a constant temp at all time for all the seven clutches we had. The only clutch that turned out awful was the albinos females clutch


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