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[spiny leaf-insect girl]

hi all i have 2 ets who have mated and layed eggs but im not sure how long the eggs will hatch someone told me they take 2 years and other people say 1 month

please help!!!!:confused:

[Daniel Ballmer]

The people who say one month are completely wrong, the ones who say two years just do something wrong.

ET eggs need about 3 to 6 months, no shorter time, but if they are kept much too dry or much too cold, they can have up to two years. If the most hatch in average time, there can be some late hatches after nine months or even a year. That happens, not depending on how you keep them.

[Donatas_s]

I was heard, that if Extatosoma tiarutum eggs are not fertilized, than it will be start hatching only after 9-12 months; if fertilized than after 4-6 months.
It is true or not?
My Extatosoma tiaratum fertilized eggs was started hatched after 4 months and was haching to 12 months. So have a very long period.

[Daniel Ballmer]

This is wrong. A friend of mine has been keeping their ETs parthenogenetically for generations. And they always started hatching after 3-4 months. She had them very humid on an aquarium lamp. Now she's breeding with males and the incubation time isn't different.

[Donatas_s]

Thank you, so i will know now, that it was bug information.

[spiny leaf-insect girl]

thank you all:)