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tspuckler
at Fri Apr 21 08:53:25 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tspuckler ]
Misty,
I wouldn't put moss over the eggs. I'd half-bury them in perlite, leaving the tops exposed. If the eggs are in clumps, the top ones don't even need to be in contact with perlite (see pic below). While moss is good as an egglaying medium, I haven't had much success with it as an incubation medium. I've even seperating clutches, incubating one half in moss and the other in perlite. The moss eggs went bad. Some people have suggested that the moss actually draws moisture out of the egg. That's just a theory, but any way you slice it, no moss for me when incubating eggs.
Some eggs look good but are actually bad. Therefore you can have clean, healthy-appearing eggs that "die." For me, if eggs get past the first 30 days of incubation, I'm reasonably sure they'll hatch. Before that 30 days, anything goes. On the other hand, eggs can look terrible and still hatch out babies. The good news is that moldy eggs generally won't affect healthy ones.
Tim
Third Eye
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