Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Mordax not communal at 2I . . .

So I saw a couple more little corpses when I checked this morning (Sad), and decided to separate them this evening. I only found nine.

+ 26 in original brood
- 5 given to friends
- 4 unknown deaths (that number doesn't bother me so much)
- 9 recovered
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= 8 cannibalized

I guess that isn't too bad, but a 50/50 survival/cannibalism rate still kinda sucks. My H. longimanus only had 20% cannibalism.

So I think I'll be separating my next broods.

(I've been leaning towards specializing in this species and downsizing my collection a bit, so this is a handy piece of information to know for my two other gravid females.)

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