Post date: May 31, 2018 1:43:25 AM
30v18. a bag of 5 tubes arrived. there are about 30 eggs per tube, but there were some eggs loose in the bag, too. i put the eggs in small petri dishes -- half of a tube's worth of eggs. i labeled which tube it came from because we might be able to consider a tube as a family.
incubator is set to: 25C constant; lights on at 7am, lights off at 9pm; program called "25-14".
We used 27C last year, 27h light. But painted ladies do well at 72-78F, so we dropped down to 25C.
One hatched june 1. all the rest hatched june 2. we had way more than what we needed (150) -- probably had double what we needed.