rectic live young?

[SnailsPace]

On the 23rd March I found rectic eggs fresh on the surface, 3 days later (last sat) I cleaned out the tank and buried the 3 eggs and another I found in a corner. Yesterday I took out food bowls that had been there a day and soaked them overnight. Today I found a baby rectic in the water with them. So I dug up the other eggs to see if there was any more hatching eggs but ....duh duh duh....all 4 eggs were still there!!
Now the tank was thoroughy cleaned out and I've seen no more eggs (just had a rummage), so this means that either they've laid a single egg and it's hatched within 6 days or one has given birth to a live young...any one ever heard of that in rectics??

[ness]

Aw well I'm really sorry to say but unfortunately I have found that moving retic eggs can kill the developing young, so the little retic you found that had hatched was perhaps one from an egg that had remained undetected.
That aside sometimes there are variations in how long it takes for larger eggs to hatch even from the same batch - I don't know about retics but this can be true with A.marginata, so maybe it's true with retics?

xxx

[SnailsPace]

It couldn't have been undetected as I totally cleaned the tank out Ness and the only 4 eggs I found are still there x

[ness]

Ooooh well I've not herd of retics giving birth to live young, but I wonder if it held onto the egg and popped it out later than the rest of the batch?

[SnailsPace]

Yeah hopea said that on S&T, is most bizarre! X