Incubation Question!

[Gregg M]

Originally Posted by Teal

I don't have access to perlite or vermeculite (sp?). I don't know what "SIM containers" are. I don't have a snake room - I simply have MY room, and the temperature fluxes quite a lot from low seventies to low eighties depending on what part of the day I wake up in and then get the air cooler on.

So, thank you for telling me that my set up is "very wrong" - I watched a lot of YouTube videos and everyone does their set ups just a little bit differently. So, if you have any advice on how to improve mine to give my eggs the best chance, working with the materials I have... THAT would be nice.

Well I did tell you what would give you the best chance of success with your eggs. I gave you a run down of the matrials you need. You can watch you tube until your eyes fall out of your head. That will not help you to incubated reptile eggs properly. You are getting advice first hand from me. A successful breeder who hatches a couple of hundred snakes and lizards a year.

You are working with a poor choice of materials. See how successful you are at fixing a car engine with a tree branch. Thats about the same odds you will have when incubating eggs on coco fiber. Anyone has access to perlite. You can get it at any garden center/home depot/lowes/k-mart/wal-mart. You should have atleast one of those no more than 15 miles away from your house.

My post was not ment to be NICE. My post was to tell you what you are doing wrong so you can fix it.
You dont like what I have to say, by all means, ignore what I am telling you and go watch more you tube vids while your snake eggs continue to cave in and collapse.

[Teal]

Originally Posted by snake man12

I lightly dampened kitchen towel over the eggs would work for some added humidity. Oh and I like bold

Thank you! I have dampened paper towels both over the moss, and over the lid of the container.. I'll try an actual towel to see if that helps! (and it's taking every bit of willpower I have to not put the html tags for bold at the start and end of my posts! lol)

Originally Posted by Gregg M

Well I did tell you what would give you the best chance of success with your eggs. I gave you a run down of the matrials you need. You can watch you tube until your eyes fall out of your head. That will not help you to incubated reptile eggs properly. You are getting advice first hand from me. A successful breeder who hatches a couple of hundred snakes and lizards a year.

You are working with a poor choice of materials. See how successful you are at fixing a car engine with a tree branch. Thats about the same odds you will have when incubating eggs on coco fiber. Anyone has access to perlite. You can get it at any garden center/home depot/lowes/k-mart/wal-mart. You should have atleast one of those no more than 15 miles away from your house.

My post was not ment to be NICE. My post was to tell you what you are doing wrong so you can fix it.
You dont like what I have to say, by all means, ignore what I am telling you and go watch more you tube vids while your snake eggs continue to cave in and collapse.

I don't care if you're rude - I'm not here for niceness, I'm here to get advice on how to rear these snake eggs into hatching.

We don't even have a Home Depot or Lowe's in this COUNTY. I can get to a Wal Mart in about 45 minutes, though. I wasn't aware that it was a material available at Wal Mart until now.

Your 1 to .8 - That is perlite to water ratio, yes?