Originally Posted by MohrSnakes
Yeah, they were passing out free bags to all the vendors at Daytona. I'll use it this year and let you know. I'm thinking of setting up several test...vermiculite, perlite, sphagnum and this stuff...just for the heck of it to see if there is any difference. Plus, I'd like to settle on one to use myself.
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You know....I did all these mixes and didn't notice much of a difference. All seemed to hatch the eggs fine but this year I may be more scientific about it.
A few notes:
Perlite worked but was my least favorite as moisture amount was hard to determine.
Vermiculite and sphagnum worked as did hatch rite but my favorite was a sphagnum/perlite combo with a tiny amount of sphagnum over the top of the eggs. I really did like the hatch rite too....just not thrilled about paying that much for incubation substrate. Last year I went through 2 LARGE bags (3 cu feet or so) of EACH of perlite, vermiculite, and sphagnum moss for all the corn, king, rat and python eggs. Not sure I want to shell out that much on hatch rite. That being said, if you are doing a handful of eggs, that may be the way to go.
