Can RCS lose eggs?

[krap101]

Once of my RCS finally molted and put the eggs on her swimmers, and I noticed one came loose. I looked again a couple hours later, and it seems like the number of eggs has been reduced significantly.

 

[mgamer20o0]

yes. they drop infertile eggs.

 

[bs6749]

Yeah, they drop them all the time. They can start out with 50 or so and you might be lucky to end up with half that number.

 

[krap101]

Thanks for the replies... How would they know that they're infertile?

 

[mgamer20o0]

they just do.