Perlite to water ratio?

[andrewross8705]

Apologies if this answer is right in front of me. It's late and I'm all sorts of scatter brained for a labrum tear.

I'm getting ready to put my containers together for eggs. I'm using perlite for my hognose eggs but wanted to ask in here as it's the breeding section. I'm using these cups with an egg tray from reptile basics. For the perlite, is it an equal amount of water and perlite mixed together or is it a different ratio? I've seen answers all over the place and some say you want it to be moist but not sopping wet.

Bonus question: How do you know if your eggs are too dry? If it's too humid, I assume they will be sweating quite a bit but what if your humidity isn't high enough?

[Devenco]

If you have an egg tray (meaning the eggs do not hit the perlite) it is not that much of a problem, try to play with it a little. (height of your place compared to sea level is also of influence of the ratios).


You know your eggs are to dry if they are dimpling and deflating (this happens naturally in the last 2 weeks, that is ok just not before that)

You know eggs are to "wet" if there is A LOT of water building on the lid.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I use 2.1 ratio allows me to have enough humidity without having too much condensation

How do you know if an egg is too dry? It will start deflating, if it remains nice and plump than there is enough humidity.

As a reminder every time you check on your eggs and open the egg box (if you do) you will let moisture out, so it is best not to.