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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?
Last edited by mechnut450; 07-15-2010 at 07:15 AM.
Reason: spelling
Was married to 4theSNAKElady (still wish we were)
Ball pythons
0.1 pieds 0.1 het pied
4.2 sugar gliders ( non breeding pets)
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Re: After the breeding season
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?
I have never heard of reusing it but thats a interesting idea, I usually just throw it out after the clutch hatches.
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Re: After the breeding season
This is my first year breeding and I threw out the substrate after the eggs hatched.
BPs Currently 23 total
1.6.0 Normals, 1.0.0 66% poss het pied, 2.5.0 Yellow Belly, 1.0.0 Blonde Pastel, 1.0.0 Mojave, 0.1.0 Lemon Blast, 1.0.0 Albino, 0.1.0 100% het albino, 1.0.0 Spider, 1.1.0 Het Caramel Albino
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Re: After the breeding season
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
Jerry Robertson
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Re: After the breeding season
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.
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Re: After the breeding season
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..
ALL THAT SLITHERS - Ball Python aficionado/keeper
breeder of African soft fur Rats. Keeper of other small exotic mammals.
10 sugar gliders
2 tenrecs
5 jumping spiders
paludarium with fish
Brisingr the albino
Snowy the BEL
Piglet the albino conda hognose
FINALLY got my BEL,no longer breeding snakes. married to mechnut450..
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Re: After the breeding season
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.
Was married to 4theSNAKElady (still wish we were)
Ball pythons
0.1 pieds 0.1 het pied
4.2 sugar gliders ( non breeding pets)
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Re: After the breeding season
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.
Therm o rock brand is what I have, and that would suck if they repackaged it like that
Last edited by snakesRkewl; 07-15-2010 at 07:03 PM.
Jerry Robertson
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Re: After the breeding season
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)
http://www.uline.com/BL_3801/Vermicu...ds=Vermiculite
Nice big bag to save you some money.
I'm also in the use it and toss it camp.
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