After the breeding season

Ok I going to post this in a question format that a ( someone can repost for a sticky if it works out good) I was wondering what people do with their tubs medium and such after the season over?

I personally I rinse and store the egg tubs ( convert the incubator into a stoarge space since I use an old coke machine) I bake my egg medium and then place in a ziplock back ( since i can't find it without chemicals around here) to be reused. I bake it to make sterile and to remove any remaining water( this done at about 250 degrees for 2 hours. I stop half way though allow to cool some ( enough I can stir the mix to allow wetter stuff to the top and bake more).

So I was wonder what other that breed every year/ year round do?

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Originally Posted by mechnut450

Ok I going to post this in a question format that a ( someone can repost for a sticky if it works out good) I was wondering what people do with their tubs medium and such after the season over?

I personally I rinse and store the egg tubs ( convert the incubator into a stoarge space since I use an old coke machine) I bake my egg medium and then place in a ziplock back ( since i can't find it without chemicals around here) to be reused. I bake it to make sterile and to remove any remaining water( this done at about 250 degrees for 2 hours. I stop half way though allow to cool some ( enough I can stir the mix to allow wetter stuff to the top and bake more).

So I was wonder what other that breed every year/ year round do?

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I have never heard of reusing it but thats a interesting idea, I usually just throw it out after the clutch hatches.

This is my first year breeding and I threw out the substrate after the eggs hatched.

I toss it.

The bag of vermiculite I bought cost about $20 and will fill 50 or more tubs so I figured it was expendable :P

I hear you about having a hard time finding Perlite/vermiculite without fertilizer in it. The Home Depot here only carries it with fertilizer. I think I found it once at Lowes, but I have found googling "organic nursery" plus your zipcode will give you some good leads.

I always throw it out.....I ususally buy a good size bag, and don't really need much. So, it lasts me awhile. I don't see the sense in keeping it. Reusing hatch medium?...now THATS being frugal..:P

well when I goto mine it was like 5+ bucks for a little gallon size bag and it took 2( needed a 3rd but they only had the 2 that day and not seen it since)

I found baking it kills most the micros in the medium. I am betting they store I got it from purchased a large bag like yours snakesRkewl, and rebagged it with a home printed label and tripled their profit. cause the ziplock bags were low end kind.

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Originally Posted by mechnut450

I found baking it kills most the micros in the medium. I am betting they store I got it from purchased a large bag like yours snakesRkewl, and rebagged it with a home printed label and tripled their profit. cause the ziplock bags were low end kind.

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Therm o rock brand is what I have, and that would suck if they repackaged it like that :(

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Originally Posted by mechnut450

well when I goto mine it was like 5+ bucks for a little gallon size bag and it took 2( needed a 3rd but they only had the 2 that day and not seen it since)

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http://www.uline.com/BL_3801/Vermicu...ds=Vermiculite

Nice big bag to save you some money. :gj:

I'm also in the use it and toss it camp.