Ryan Jarosek
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I would say if you can get em past the first 2wks thats the critical stage. At least with other species Ive raised from the egg. Most of the weaker individuals usually perish in the first week or so. Ive never had werners though so Im going by panthers and veileds.
They are over the risk at about 4 months of age. They can look like they are doing well and just start dropping dead.
My one and only recommendation : Start putting them out in the cold at night. Even if it drops to 45f or so. I am leaning toward not enough of a temperature drop is allowed at night. I would shoot for at least 20 f cooler than their daily cool spot. 55-60 ideal. More humidity would help as well.
Forgive me if I didn't read all this thread but if you have them in bins I would get them in screen cages with lots of plants. All of them together if you need to. Separating them into containers will not help much.
IMO what you need to do is , Cold at night, Screen ventilation, more humidity and LESS FOOD. I would only feed them every other day even as babies. Make sure there isn't too much supplementation. I really don't think it has much to do with moms health or being a WC etc but what do I know. I have had some success with this method on other live bearers. Mostly with sternfeldi only because I have had the opertunity to play with multiple clutches born at the same time using different methods.