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10-Jul-07, 04:03 PM
|  | QUEEN B Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23  | | |  Incubating in water??
I read an information sheet today which described the author's attempts to breed dragons. They had a rather unorthodox method of incubating the eggs, whereby they placed the tub of vermiculite containing the eggs into a large fishtank and allowed it to float there. Using an aquarium heater, they maintained the temperature of the water.
Has anyone tried this method? The main drawback I can see is the risk of babies hatching and then jumping out of the vermiculite tub and drowning. I'm sure there's a simple solution. I just thought the whole idea was quite fascinating.
Thoughts? 
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10-Jul-07, 04:09 PM
|  | Bendy! Sponsor | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane Gender:  | | | | G'day Miss B,
That is one of many ways to incubate eggs. The latest craze is "no medium" incubation, where people will incubate eggs over a few inches of waterl, with the eggs suspended on a grate to keep them dry. I believe a lot of Chondro breeders use this technique.
Like I said, there are many different ways to incubate eggs, and at the end of the day, if they are kept in a humid environment, with stable temperatures, they will nearly always hatch. As Brian Barnett said to me once, "Eggs are made to hatch!".
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10-Jul-07, 04:12 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 23 | | | | I have heard of it and can see alot of advantages to this style of incubating. The water would act as a heat sinc and hold temperatures really well and humidity would be maintained all of the time so your eggs wouldn't dry out.
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10-Jul-07, 04:13 PM
| | QUEEN B Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Wow... that's really interesting. I've just never heard of it done like that before!
Does anyone have any experience using this method?
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10-Jul-07, 04:33 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: dalby Age/Gender: 17 | | | | witht the containers you can put a bit of fly mesh over the top of it im going to try the method this year |
10-Jul-07, 05:52 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: north coast NSW Age/Gender: 24 | | | | wouldnt that method need a really warm fish tank? My fish tanks are only 26deg -not warm enough for any of my herps.
but iIf you were just setting up an aquarium for egg incubation and not fish wouldnt it just be easier to use a normal incubator |
10-Jul-07, 05:56 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-07 Location: Central Coast NSW Gender: | | | | could also cause the eggs to be too moist |
10-Jul-07, 08:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | sounds interesting never heard of it before either. |
10-Jul-07, 08:47 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: dalby Age/Gender: 17 | | | | my tanks get up to 40c |
10-Jul-07, 08:52 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Timbucktoo, WA Age: 19 | | | | WARNING: Possibly a dumb question.
Wouldn't the eggs 'drown' due to lack of gas exchange on the surface of the shell?? Over the water I can understand but in it?
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10-Jul-07, 08:54 PM
|  | Wonder Woman Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Serpant_Lady WARNING: Possibly a dumb question.
Wouldn't the eggs 'drown' due to lack of gas exchange on the surface of the shell?? Over the water I can understand but in it? | The eggs are in a container, not just floating on the water. |
10-Jul-07, 08:59 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 20 | | | | wouldnt u just put a lid on the container making the waters only use a heating one (heat sinc style). You could then use any of the different substrates for within the container. |
10-Jul-07, 10:36 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: north coast NSW Age/Gender: 24 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nook171 my tanks get up to 40c | 40deg fish tank how can fish live in that |
10-Jul-07, 10:42 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: dalby Age/Gender: 17 | | | | they dont lol it's just what iv had my tank up to with nothing in it |
10-Jul-07, 10:46 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Adelaide SA Gender: | | | | Ive seen it done by a mate to hatch both ewd`s and ackies at the same time, he used a foam veggie box with an aquarium heater and water and placed the eggs in icecream container covered with glad wrap, he had almost 100% hatch rate. | | |
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