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midnightherps
at Tue Apr 10 23:17:39 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by midnightherps ]
Try ringing the medium out and making it more on the dry side. It could save your eggs. Let me explain.
The first clutch of Childrens eggs I hatched out last year had too much humidity but they did alright. They bloated and spotted but still hatched.
I learned later from Australian Addiction's website that Antaresia dont need as much humidity as other python eggs.
For example, (bare w/ me now) this year I put my first childrens clutch in my homemade incubator that uses the no substrate method. I followed the design by Damon Salcies of albinochondro.com
That incubator is kindof an over kill for my needs since I dont breed GTP's but I wanted to build it nonetheless and I like the no substrate method. It works well. HOWEVER, the no-substrate method does not work as well for Antaresia because it provides too much humidity just as even too much water in a medium like vermiculite could. I can incubate my ball eggs just fine in my fancy incubator but when I stuck my Childrens eggs in it a couple months ago I noticed that they started to dent farely quickly. Thats when I remembered what I had read from Australian Addiction. So this year I put the eggs back in a hovabator with vermiculite but I kept it drier than I usual.
Sorry for the long explanation. The reason I tell you all of this is to say that your problem may not be a lack of humidity but maybe you have too much instead.
Heres how prepared the vermiculite for this years clutch.
I mixed it with water and squeezed it as tight as possible to ring the water out, but then instead of using it as is like most people would, I added a little more vermiculite to the moist mixture makeing it slightly on the dry side. This had me a little concerned at first but it has worked like a charm.
Its true!!! They do better on the dry side. Temp@89 /- two or three degrees.
My eggs have stayed tight full term with no water spots and are just now starting to dimple becuase theyre due in about a week.
Hope this helps.
Brendan Saffron
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This may help you too! - midnightherps, Tue Apr 10 23:17:39 2007