Our 2nd clutch

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

Faith (or anybody), do you have previous experience incubating with the water (substrateless) method? I'd really like to go that route when the time comes, but I don't see enough people doing it, so I'm a little hesitant. That method is basically a box, an egg crate above some water (or soaked perlite), eggs on top of the crate and 98%-100% humidy in the box with correct temps? Any tips, methods or advice for this? Thanks.

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No, we have no prior experience. This is our first year to breed our snakes. We also have some eggs in the vermiculite.

My husband talks to different people about the incubating. He says they say the water method is very successful with 100% hatch rate most the time so we are going to try it one time and see what happens.

Nice, Faith!
Question time.. :) What, if anything, do you place the egg box into? A larger enclosed incubator? I am just learning about substrate-less incubating..

Yes, the egg box goes in the incubator just like when you use vermiculite.

We place the box you see the eggs in with the top on in the incubator. Good Luck!

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

Faith (or anybody), do you have previous experience incubating with the water (substrateless) method? I'd really like to go that route when the time comes, but I don't see enough people doing it, so I'm a little hesitant. That method is basically a box, an egg crate above some water (or soaked perlite), eggs on top of the crate and 98%-100% humidy in the box with correct temps? Any tips, methods or advice for this? Thanks.

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I'm trying this now. Most people use pvc pipe for "risers" to get the eggcrate above the water level. I decided to try deli cups with the bottom cut out... cheap, easy, and guaranteed uniform height. The only problem so far is that the deli cups are a little too tall. My first clutch of eggs touched the lid of the tub, so I am using saran wrap over that tub instead of the lid.

Steve

Great looking clutch Faith! Now the hard part of waiting begins. :) Good luck with them.

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

Faith (or anybody), do you have previous experience incubating with the water (substrateless) method? I'd really like to go that route when the time comes, but I don't see enough people doing it, so I'm a little hesitant. That method is basically a box, an egg crate above some water (or soaked perlite), eggs on top of the crate and 98%-100% humidy in the box with correct temps? Any tips, methods or advice for this? Thanks.

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We used the regular way (vermiculite and perlite mixed) in most of our egg boxes last year but we did experiment with the soaked perlite for two clutches. Our experiment convinced us that this was the way to go so we're using this method for all our clutches this year. Good hatch rate, less mess to clean off the babies when they hatch, and most importantly, no worrying about whether the medium is too dry or too wet.

I know I've seen several posts on other forums about this method and it seems like quite a few are having success with it.

Hey Hoot. If you are using saran wrap instead of a lid, make sure that the saran wrap does not touch any of the eggs. If the saran wrap touches the eggs, I would bet that condensation will form on the saran wrap, and form a wet spot on the egg. This spot will probably continue to grow and eventually kill the egg. Just my two cents.