That's a good question.... Should it be as soon as we wake? Every morning I mean to do better, but I always seem to test at a different time...mostly because I have 4 large cats, which live, and are fed, in different parts of the house, a large fish-tank with loads of starving fish in it and a 3-metre tank full of very large and hungry red-eared slider turtles - and
one Saudi Arabian illegal immigrant... and four very large catfish... all rescues I will hastily add, I didn't do it on purpose...

Oh, and the oldest turtle had three babies hatch too, which
increased the numbers overnight rather alarmingly....


I was always led to believe that it's hard to hatch the things without incubators and what-have-you... wrong... all you need it a load of damp sand and some warm weather - searingly hot in fact! And they are all girls bar one little boy...

Sorry, off-piste again...