Skip the vermiculite, perlite is just fine. Pick up some eggcrate from Home Depot instead of the vermiculite. You'll find it over by the flourescent lighting section, it's used as a light diffuser. Cut it to fit nice and tight inside your egg box. Grab some sort of small spacers, I use 1/2" pvc couplings. Put four of them in the egg box, and fill the box up with perlite until it's even with the top of the spacers. Pour in a bunch of water until the water level is just a little bit below the top of the perlite. Put your eggcrate on top of the spacers, and your eggs on top of the eggcrate. The eggs are out of the substrate so you don't have to worry about it being to wet, while you still get all the humidity they could possibly need. About the only possible way to screw up this method of incubation is the temperatures in your incubator spiking too high.
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