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RE: Congrats and more

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Posted by: FR at Fri Jul 7 15:37:39 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

Well, considering I have successfully hatched over 20 species and many many in number, I will offer this. Thats toooooooo hot. What the heck are they thinking??????????

Heres the deal. Think of hatching eggs as walking a tightrope. You have to have good balance and stay on top of it to get all the way to the other side. Using temps over 90 is just like that only now its not a rope, but a tiny wire. With the rope, there is room to error. With the wire, there is no room for error. The question is, what are the chances of you making a error?

I use mid eighties, I do so because there is lots of room for error. Consider, lethal temps are around a 100F(lower with higher humidities) higher with lower humidities. With the mid eighties I can error in both directions.

Also water is absorbed in the eggs, how this is done is directly related to temps. More at higher temps, less at lower temps. So at higher temps, you have NO room for error in this area.

So it boils down to this, I hatch monitors on a weekly basis, I have for a decade and a half. I do not have problems. The reason is, I try to avoid making my own problems. Keeping eggs that hot is no more or no less than creating your own problems.

So I say this, they must want you to fail, as they gave you some very risky advice. Cheers


   

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