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What is your ideal incubation media?

What do you use for incubation?

  • Sphagnum Moss

    Votes: 40 31.5%

  • Vermiculite

    Votes: 44 34.6%

  • Perlite

    Votes: 17 13.4%

  • Soil

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 24 18.9%
  • Total voters
    127
Joejr14 said:
Vermic for me, Jeff. 1:1 ratio in a sealed up ziploc container (much like your rubbermaid containers for your corn condos, just bigger).

The cancer thing doesn't bother me as vermic is routinely tested and to my knowledge none has come up carrying asbestos lately at all. I do believe those mines were closed down.

Plus vermic is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying good grade moss---and from what I've seen people have had fly problems on moss---but I've never seen it happen on vermic.

Personally I'd rather go with a mineral that doesn't allow mold growth and things like that, but it's just me.
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I have mold growing on top of the vermiculite layer in one of my boxes... and it is a good quality, said to be free of any contaminents brand of vermiculite.
 
Sticky This Thread Please?

Could this thread be made into a Sticky , Please? It is the most useful, informative thread on all the web regarding this topic. Thanks for any consideration.
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I am using Hatchrite again this year. Yes it's a bit pricey but for a newbie the fact that its ready to use without the worry of water weight ratios and such is great!!
 
I just materially incubate the eggs myself. It's a pain to sit around for that long, but I figured I can help the snakes out with my body heat.
 
I use HatchRite, straight out of the bag, brand new bag, no leftovers. I bury the eggs about 3/4, and don't separate them if they are clumped, and try to position any eggs that are loose in the exact position they were in the egg pile before I moved it. I cover the eggs with an inch deep layer of sphagnum moss out of the lay box, just BARELY damp. If it seems too dry, it's just right. I use a closed, clear container with no holes and remove the container from the incubator once or twice a week, open the lid and gently fan the eggs with the lid for a minute. I rotate the egg containers' positions in the incubator so they change shelves and aren't always facing front or back, just to try to even things out, when I take them out for airing.
 
It would be interesting to run this poll again, now that there are a couple specialized hatching media available commercially.
 
I Hatched my first clutch with Hatch-rite and Orchid moss..... And have done so ever since.
 
I've used Hatchrite which I loved- I used it once and have not been able to buy more. For the rest of my clutches I've used moss and vermiculite-which to me was a mess and didn't work well but I could have just not been doing it right. . This year I will only be using Sphagnum moss, so I'm not sure how well it will work. Hopefully, it will do well enough.
 
wildlifephotographer said:
I've used Hatchrite which I loved- I used it once and have not been able to buy more. For the rest of my clutches I've used moss and vermiculite-which to me was a mess and didn't work well but I could have just not been doing it right. . This year I will only be using Sphagnum moss, so I'm not sure how well it will work. Hopefully, it will do well enough.
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Why can't you buy more? Petsolutions.com
 
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