Do you add water to Hatchrite?

I used it my first year - the only reason I don't use it now is the price. To your finger tips, it will feel dry - but if you touch the back of your hand to it - you should be able to feel some moisture.

Watch the eggs, if they start to dimple early on - I simply added a TBS of water to each corner of the tub and it was fine.

I had no problems with Hatchrite.

I now use straight Perlite, and I mix it to roughly the same consistency as the Hatchrite. I also put my eggs directly in the Hatchrite or Perlite, have never used a light diffuser. In my 3 seasons of breeding, I've never had an egg go bad.

Why not just use substrate-less incubation brother?

Thats what I used last season and was quite happy.

Ill do it again this season God willing

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Originally Posted by Jerhart

I thought there would be more than 2 people on this forum who have used this...?
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My last clutch with hatchrite was was up until the last 2 weeks the humidity started to drop a little so I added some water around the edges.

At the start though no, I didn't add water to get it going.

Thanks all...

Yeah it is a bit pricey...I am leaning on going back to perlite...I may or may not give this hatchrite a try...As I said, I have always used perlite, but just got a bit discouraged this season with a poor hatch rate.

Buuuuut I am guessing that has more to do with the fact that my incubator, full of eggs, was unplugged for roughly 8 hours as I moved from Minnesota to Kansas over the summer...not so much the incubation medium.

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

Why not just use substrate-less incubation brother?

Thats what I used last season and was quite happy.

Ill do it again this season God willing

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I have contemplated doing this...I am just affraid of a hatchling get tangled in the diffuser and drowning themselves...I know it's unlikely, but after this season, I didn't want to rule anything out...


Oh well...I have a few months to contemplate all of this.

Thanks again all!

All I did was waited for the first one to pip and then I cut the rest and put em on wet paper towels, no worries.

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Originally Posted by Jerhart

I have contemplated doing this...I am just affraid of a hatchling get tangled in the diffuser and drowning themselves...I know it's unlikely, but after this season, I didn't want to rule anything out...


Oh well...I have a few months to contemplate all of this.

Thanks again all!

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i used it for my leos and it worked great, some i added water too some i didn't. I have heard people saying that the water crystals will take moisture from eggs but i didn't have any problems with that.

just my 2 cents hope it helps

Coming to the forum almost always has ppl agreeing and ppl disagreeing. lol. I got the hatchrite with my incubator because it was a package thing. It says it didn't need water. I didn't use my incubator till day 58 when I slit them; so i dont know on that front. I do know that a few of my hatchlings came out their umbilicus still attached but no yoke. Some of the hatchrite was attached to the umbilicus which was a pain to get off. It came of for the most part after I ran the hatchlings under warm water. Not that I know anything different, but I think I'm going with the vermiculite for my next clutch to see if its better. Good luck to you.