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Blood Red Corns and eggs

Rich Z

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Hey Rich,

What is the substrate that you use in their egg boxes? They seem to like it very much!

Thanks,
Erin
 
It's sphagnum peat moss. Yeah, I wish I could keep those containers with them year round. Corn snakes are actually pretty accomplished burrowers and will spend time burried much of the time.
 
Wow, thats not anything like the moss I find around here, looks like it has been ground up or something. I think I'm going to have to do some more looking, I like that better than the stuff I have which is more folage like.
 
It looks very much like the coconut husk fiber I use. You buy it compressed in a brick and add water and it makes about 9-10 litres worth from something that didn't even take up 1 litre to begin with...great stuff...I use it year round as a moist hide.
 
franklin said:
Rich,

What brand of spag. peat moss? Do you use it to incubate as well???
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Beats me what brand it is. All of the gardening supply places here near Tallahassee carry it. I believe it comes from Canada.

No, I actually incubate the eggs in vermiculite.
 
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Rich Z said:
Beats me what brand it is. All of the gardening supply places here near Tallahassee carry it. I believe it comes from Canada.

No, I actually incubate the eggs in vermiculite.
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Rich,

Thanks for the quik reply:) I just want to do the right thing for my eggs. I too use Vermiculite. Do you bury them (eggs) completely or half exposed?
 
Roughly half way within a plastic shoe box. I guess about an inch or so of vermiculite on top of the eggs. If you have the vermiculite TOO wet or it is TOO fine, you will drown the eggs. Many people make the vermiculite too wet and in this case you have to keep the eggs exposed a bit or they will drown.
 
hmm thanks, I think I will put a bit more vermic on top, or at least around the edges just to try it out for the first time :)
 
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