Hi there,

Based on my experience, I will put the female in a dark and heavily covered by the aquatic grass (such as elodea) which can be retrieve from some drain or pond. But normally, most of them will survive at birth. But not all of them will grow up to adulthood. Again, its trial and error business. I only manage to get 8 from the first brood 10 years ago. After that more and more once I got the experience.

Regards