Violin ooth missing top layer?

[ShieldMantid1997]

Hey guys,

All violin ooths i have ever seen are brownish, and every ooth i have ever had were kind of hardish. But my violin just laid her second in a row that has staid white, and if you touch it, it flakes off. Anyone know what's wrong?

 

[psyconiko]

This foam always come with the ooth when laid.It insulates and protect the ooth from overheating and moisture.Flies love this kind of meringue so it s not unusual to see a violin ooth without its white foam,Plus as you said it come off very easily.The smell reminds me of chemical glue or like the liquid some millipedes use as protection against predators.

So nothing s wrong unless that foam becomes solid.

Last thing!Careful it makes you cough like heck!!

 

[agent A]

Is the ooth fertile? My infertile gongylus ooth is still white after more than a year!!!

 

[psyconiko]

Well that means you never touched it.The white foam is not an indicator of fertility.

My old ones are turning yellow to grey.If it does not hatch after 2 month it is unfertile for sure.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Most times the white will come off as you mist them, nothing wrong with that, an agent A, this is agent H, your ooth is no good!!!!

 

[agent A]

Agent h, thank u for telling me something I already know

I'm preserving it cause it looks cool

The female did mate at the end of her life but she was eggbound and died last Easter

 

[hibiscusmile]

Well now agent A u confuse agent H! how can she lay an ooth and be oothbound too!

 

[agent A]

She laid an infertile ooth so then to prevent that I kept her cool with little food and no perches to lay

She still lived long but never laid a second ooth

 

[hibiscusmile]

aw! dont tell me that, and don't withhold food, now I am going to cry :taz:

 

[psyconiko]

Well now agent A u confuse agent H! how can she lay an ooth and be oothbound too!

Sometimes it is not totally blocked and a small ooth may be laid,but it never last long....

 

[hibiscusmile]

OH! thanks agent N!

 

[agent A]

aw! dont tell me that, and don't withhold food, now I am going to cry :taz:

I didn't know better then

Besides every now and then she was allowed a nice feast!!!