What type of bedding/substrate do you use for your gravid females and why?

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I use cypress as my usual bedding. Since I maternally incubate my clutches I add a handful or so of moistened sphagnum moss to the tub around her due date and it usually winds up becoming part of her nest. The cypress and sphagnum hold moisture really well so I don't have to worry about humidity issues while she's brooding.

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This is what I do but I add a smaller sterilite tub upside down with a hole in the side and add the sphagnum moss in there (which becomes her nest) with a prob just to see what the temp is in there cause i'm curious:D(usaully comes out between 86-89 for me) I keep my bp's in a rack system with 41qt sterilite tubs.

I use newspaper until they are getting close to laying, then I switch them to aspen. It's helps hold humidity and it's easier to get off the eggs. It would probably be just fine using newspaper, but it helped me last year when I didn't get to my eggs for about 9 hours they dimpled a little since it was a bit dry, but it was better than it would have been with newspaper. Like others said, they will move everything away from the eggs when they lay so it doesn't really matter what you put in there, they will most likely lay them directly on the tub.

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Paper...I've had plenty of eggs get paper stuck to them and it was never an issue.



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Originally Posted by Quiet Tempest

I use cypress as my usual bedding. Since I maternally incubate my clutches I add a handful or so of moistened sphagnum moss to the tub around her due date and it usually winds up becoming part of her nest. The cypress and sphagnum hold moisture really well so I don't have to worry about humidity issues while she's brooding.

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Thank you, I don't really get to hear from someone that lets their female nest. Thanks for the tip, I will keep that in mind.