what do you all like to do when your eggs pip question?

[Coleslaw007]

No great answer other than it looked fine. It was already set up in our egg containers, and now it is just habit and seems to work well for us.

Idk, that would worry me but if it's working it's working lol.

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[jhaven]

I couldn't remember where else I had seen it, but Kevin at NERD seems to reuse his hatch rite as well.
See video at around the 7-8 min mark.


http://www.maballs.net/#!page4/cfvg

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

You can rinse hatchrite.. No sense in continuously buying such expensive medium when you can dump it into a strainer or colander and use a sprayer on your sink or outdoor hose to rinse and flush it out very well..

Must be awful for those wild BPs laying eggs in filthy termite mounds and animal burrows.. No one cleans and disinfects them regularly for them.

[sho220]

You can rinse hatchrite.. No sense in continuously buying such expensive medium when you can dump it into a strainer or colander and use a sprayer on your sink or outdoor hose to rinse and flush it out very well..

Must be awful for those wild BPs laying eggs in filthy termite mounds and animal burrows.. No one cleans and disinfects them regularly for them.

I used to just toss it and buy new, but hey, if re-using it is good enough for the evilmorphgod, it's good enough for me...

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

I used to just toss it and buy new, but hey, if re-using it is good enough for the evilmorphgod, it's good enough for me...

I use to also. At one time I had a bunch of bags stocked in a closet. When I realized that wasn't cost effective, I started washing it. Ill re use it a few times unless it gets a lot of goop in it. Rinsing it very well and spreading it out in an underbed tub to completely dry. Then I put it in my clean egg tubs, put the lid on, and re wet it next season.

[SlitherinSisters]

I put mine in a new tub with damp paper towels. I mist them about every day, maybe every other day. Mine stay in the incubator together until they all shed.

[MrLang]

First my real question:

For those of you who put the eggs on a light diffuser, I am currently worrying and wondering about the babies being out of the eggs in the tub with the light diffuser as it is somewhat sharp edged and produces lots of little spots that could pinch or poke. Am I overthinking this or do you do something else at the end to make sure the babies don't sit right on the plastic grate?



My comment on reusing substrate:

I realize in the wild things are 'dirty' but if you can control the amount of egg-eating bacteria that your new clutches get exposed to, why wouldn't you? A huge industrial sized bag of vermiculite is like 10 bucks. I'm not sure if hatch rite is anything but pre-soaked overpriced vermiculute/perlite mix, but once it has been used it kind of defeats the 'ready mixed' selling point of the substrate - the reason that it costs 5x as much as the raw ingredients. If you lose a single egg to mold you've already negated the financial benefits of reusing substrate. It just doesn't make much logical sense in my humble opinion.

[Annarose15]

I use light diffuser, and I move the eggs onto wet paper towels in another tub when the first one pips, so they don't snag anything on it as they emerge.

[MrLang]

I use light diffuser, and I move the eggs onto wet paper towels in another tub when the first one pips, so they don't snag anything on it as they emerge.

Surprised this is the first I've read that given how many 'omg the eggs are hatching' threads there are but I'm glad I asked.