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Day: February 23, 2017

A different sort of hatching

Posted on 2017-02-232023-01-06 by Allison J. Gong

My bald sculpins have begun hatching! Their egg mass has been disintegrating over the past few days and I couldn’t tell if that was because they were dying or hatching. Yesterday I was able to spend some time looking at them and was surprised to see that a few little pink blobs had wiggled their way…

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