A couple observations

[lovesheraxies]

With my last clutch laid around 2 weeks ago I noticed about 5 days ago one baby had come out of the jelly, miraculously it was alive but the gills were hardly developed, I put it into it's own container to monitor it, surprisingly last night I checked on it and the little dude was darting around, and has some nice long gills. I put some shrimp in with him, hoping he will eat. Is this uncommon? I read that usually if they break out of their egg too soon they usually die?

I have one set of twins from the same clutch, developing beautifully side by side, however one is a wild type and one is albino, is this uncommon in twins or to be expected? I think it's pretty cool myself but thought I'd ask.

From my second clutch I've noticed all except around 4 of the babies are golden, mom is a golden, there are 95 babies. The first clutch was mostly wild type, albino and golden, the third clutch is looking like most are Melanoid and wild type. So weird.

 

[auntiejude]

Twins are simple - they are (nearly) always fraternal twins, 2 individual ova, with their own genetics, own yolk, just a jelly-capsule egg to share. So sifferent types is quite normal.

I had 2 babies that I accidentally hatched early (11 days) by sucking them up in the siphon - they are both 3" long, and doing fine. The text book hatching time at 20C is supposed to be 14 days, so they can't be that early.

 

[lovesheraxies]

Yes, after looking at the calendar it appears the little one broke free on the 12th day and not earlier like I suspected, he seems to be doing well tho.

My twins also hatched tonight, they are both looking good and are full of energy.