Hatch Rite

[Layla]

A friend of mine had a few probs with perlite/vermiculite and used this stuff on his blue beauty clutch and said it was fantastic. Ive not had a problem with vermiculite on geckos eggs so I'll probably just stick to that but its a great invention!

[RobStevens]

We hatched all of our eggs in Hatchrite last season and plan to use it again this year.I couldn't have been more pleased with the stuff.
Rob

[MohrSnakes]

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.

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.

[pgr8dnlvr]

Well, I ended up importing three breeder bags of the stuff. I put my first clutch in yesterday. I too was terrified I got the wrong stuff because it looked and felt so dry when surveying the bag. Once you open it though, you can feel the dampness of it! I LOVE the ease of just making sure the bag is the right temperature, pouring some into your egg container, adding the eggs, put on the lid, DONE!

By the way the pricing is DEFINITELY worth it if you can import it yourself. I paid only about $12 more than the american breeders pay for the three bags after taxes, duty and the cost of recieveing the package at my american mailbox. Exchange is GREAT right now!

I think even if you are just incubating normals, the babies you get should be able to pay for the security of using this hatching media

Anyway, just my two cents!

Rebecca

Oh and I have used vermiculite, as well as the moss method, both worked just fine, but they took a lot more of my time and effort to set up, you just have to figure out what value you put on YOUR time and effort!

[hana]

I just order some for myself, I can't wait to have some eggs to put on it.
Mixing incubating medium isn't hard, but anything that works well and makes life just that much easier is great.


hana