I am going to let you in on a little secret I learned from a buddy of mine who use to breed dart frogs. He would get eggs and for some reason frog eggs are really prone to getting mold and fungus. Well He used a fish anti fungal agent called methylue. He would use one drop per gallon of water and guess what.... no fungus. I realized that this could work with any eggs. It is not harmful and it kept fungus away. I had soem clutches go bad and then used this methyblu. I would put one drop per gallon of water and then used the water to mix with the vermiculite. I would lightly spray the eggs every week or sowith the "magic water" and I have never got fungus.... I even had a slug attached with some normal eggs and that one didnt even get fungus. Its a great preventative and can save a ton of $$$. I have used it on over 15 clutches now and i havenever had an egg mold on me. Hope that helps.

Joe

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• Another miss on the VPI True Ghost... - Bradford Cole, Wed May 17 17:32:32 2006
• RE: Another miss on the VPI True Ghost... - Atlas511, Wed May 17 17:39:09 2006
• RE: Another miss on the VPI True Ghost.. - joe1983, Wed May 17 20:21:29 2006
• Methylue - Paul Hollander, Thu May 18 10:17:41 2006
• RE: Methylue - coldthumb, Thu May 18 15:22:42 2006
• The chemical is methylene blue - John Q, Thu May 18 10:39:33 2006
• RE: The chemical is methylene blue - joe1983, Thu May 18 18:51:20 2006
• thanks for the tip Joe ....np - coldthumb, Thu May 18 21:58:23 2006
• RE: Another miss on the VPI True Ghost... - muddoc, Wed May 17 22:42:46 2006
• RE: Another miss on the VPI True Ghost... - bsaffron, Fri May 19 11:17:14 2006
• RE: Another miss on the VPI True Ghost... - RandyRemington, Sat May 20 14:32:23 2006