Bob,
sounds like gruesome fun watching the little fratricides.  What did the
egg case look like?  How many shells were in it?  Were they all the same
size when they hatched out?
Thanks,
Allen Aigen  [log in to unmask]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:03:49 -0500 Robert & Betty Lipe
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Allen, I've hatched a Fasciolaria tulipa egg case many years ago.
> The
> shells were already formed when I put the egg case in the aquarium.
> The
> tiny shells came out colored almost solid black.  I brought the egg
> case
> from South Bimimi in the small aquarium that I had taken over with
> me to
> photograph living shells.  Anyway the shells began eating each other
> until there was only about a dozen left.  They hid from each other
> and
> even though I fed them well they still killed and ate one another.
> All
> of them were the same age but they were different sizes because of
> the
> amount of food that they ate.  The two larger ones finally ate the
> others and then the largest one got to the other one.  I kept the
> only
> survivor for 4 years and it grew to about 4 inches.  I forgot to
> mention
> that when they started growing after they hatched they took on the
> black
> and white colors.  That's it for now, heading for bed.
>
> Bob
>
> ALLEN AIGEN wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know (either first hand or through literature) about
> the egg
> > cases and/or early development of the Fasciolaria or closely
> related
> > species?  (Ain't it great to be able to ask so many experts at
> once?)
> > Allen Aigen
> > [log in to unmask]
>
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