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Live Egg Cam
- Thread starter Hurley
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Q- Yeah, I wonder. Oh wait, actually I do wonder! Was that you, Q, or Zach that brought it up first. :eek1: I can't remember these things. 
Good idea. Now, if I just had that $2,000 camera sitting there firing off magazine quality photos, we'd be set.
Hediki-
I personally seal my boxes to keep the vermiculite from changing water content. There is more than enough air in that box for eggs to respire well past hatching if I never burped them. However, they do get burped to alter humidity (wipe water off the lid if it's too moist, add water if it's too dry).
Good idea. Now, if I just had that $2,000 camera sitting there firing off magazine quality photos, we'd be set. Hediki-
I personally seal my boxes to keep the vermiculite from changing water content. There is more than enough air in that box for eggs to respire well past hatching if I never burped them. However, they do get burped to alter humidity (wipe water off the lid if it's too moist, add water if it's too dry).
Rosebear
"Cornfounded"
Oh drat, darn, shucks and PIFFLE!! I watched this cam for hours yesterday... Today I had to do medical stuff out of town and missed the whole show! So...I've got to take the URL to work with me... I can get away with it...I work at an elementary school!! I'll just have a bunch of the boys crowding around me....
breedingcolors
Freaky!
Humidity
Can you tell me what % of humidity we have to keep for the eggs?
Can you tell me what % of humidity we have to keep for the eggs?
Quite honestly, I don't have a humidity probe in those boxes. I use the eggs themselves to tell me if they are too dry (very rarely happens with this closed box system) and the lid to tell me if they are too wet (drops of water on lid = too wet, wipe the drops away, cover, if more form, wipe those away...gradually reduces the moisture content to perfect).
Humidity is perfect if you get a light fog on the lid. My eggs seem happiest at that moisture content. I'd rather err to slightly dry, rather than too wet. Many people soak the eggs and it can be really quite harmful to them. Vermiculite should barely stick together if you squeeze a handful as hard as you can. If you can wring water out of it, it's bordering on or over the edge of being too wet. I don't add water unless the eggs start to dent a little, like I said, very rarely is this a problem in my setup. It's much easier to recover eggs with little detriment from a little dryer condition than from too moist of conditions. Eggs die very quickly when you "drown" them.
Oh, and to answer your question, I think 75-85% humidity would be the range mine stay at.
Humidity is perfect if you get a light fog on the lid. My eggs seem happiest at that moisture content. I'd rather err to slightly dry, rather than too wet. Many people soak the eggs and it can be really quite harmful to them. Vermiculite should barely stick together if you squeeze a handful as hard as you can. If you can wring water out of it, it's bordering on or over the edge of being too wet. I don't add water unless the eggs start to dent a little, like I said, very rarely is this a problem in my setup. It's much easier to recover eggs with little detriment from a little dryer condition than from too moist of conditions. Eggs die very quickly when you "drown" them.
Oh, and to answer your question, I think 75-85% humidity would be the range mine stay at.
breedingcolors
Freaky!
Ok thanks Connie.
wildernessey
Feelin' Snakey
There's one out!! yea!!!