GeckoJosh
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Has anyone ever tried moist coco-peat/kritters krumble as an incubation substrate?
Or is vermiculiite the only substrate people really use during incubation?
How's the eggs over water with no substrate method go?
Yeah but there's always some form of condensation in most incubation methods I've seen - so they are bound to have water drip on them at some point?
Plus how does that explain this... As soon as it rained the eggs would be toast. It was a crappy day as it was when I found them - One of the eggs had already fallen from the rest.
Only reason I brought them in was because I didn't believe they would last outside where they were.
Here's the four eggs. Note I left the two hatched eggs in place so I didn't disturb the others
And the two baby Geckos.
Properly set up incubators should never have condensation form droplets on the tub lids.
Iit is very well known that water drops damages/kills soft-shelled eggs by blocking the pores used to exchange moisture and/or gasses.
There are a number of incubation mediums available, the most common are: Perlite, Vermiculite, Sphagnum moss.
The over water technique seems to be really gaining popularity amongst experienced breeders, when done correctly it seems to be a very successful way to incubate reptile eggs.
The eggs pics you have posted are Christinus marmoratus, they lay hard-shelled eggs (only a handful of Aussie lizard genus's lay eggs like this) that do not react the same way as they do not absorb or loose moisture like soft-shelled eggs.
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