Okay so I bought some hatchrite thinking that it was jut a premix of vermiculite and perlite (because I'm and idiot didn't read the packaging). This stuff says I can just pour and use...but it doesn't seem wet enough. I've been reading that people seem to like it (that is is basically just perlite the is presoaked in some sort of water gel). I'm just nervous since I lost my clutch last year (incubator accident) and I want this to be a perfect as possible.
Has anyone placed layer of hatchrite over a layer of moist vermiculite to make sure that humidity stays high? Is this over kill? Or worse yet will it make things too wet? Should I just hatchrite pure since I've already got it?
The eggs I've done in the past I've done on 2:1 ver:per with water just enough to make a drop squeeze out. But it's been a few years since I've done the egg thing (successfully, I was so devastated by last years accident...I just made a brand new incubator).
Six of one, half a dozen of the other as far as this goes?
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