I knew from you past posts what your answer was going to be but I wanted to see. I agree and I have a feeling, hunch, un-educated guess that temperature fluctuation is a good thing. The first reason is that it happens in the wild. Second reason is that like a cold can or bottle of beer or warm ones. A cold object attracts moisture and a warm object unless saturation level is reached expels moisture so yes (my reasoning)as I view it as an egg breathing.

The reason I asked in the first place I had some reptile eggs that would mold every year, (wet dry it did not matter. Ultimately they would hatch. One year I accidentally left them in sphagnum moss for a week and wha-la no mold? So I pondered that in the wild they all have differing nesting habits and it is possible with the lack of (TRUE ACADEMICS) that these reptiles were utilizing a burrow with feces and customizing it to suit them.

Yes I agree if it works why mess with it I still like to know why it worked. I now use coconut husk with close to 100% success.





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• Frank Please expand - Sighthunter, Tue Sep 18 04:21:21 2007
• RE: Frank Please expand - FR, Tue Sep 18 10:15:29 2007
• RE: Frank Please expand - Sighthunter, Wed Sep 19 12:23:50 2007
• I think I got it! almost, oops - Sighthunter, Wed Sep 19 12:54:00 2007
• RE: Back to temps. - Sighthunter, Wed Sep 19 14:07:03 2007
• RE: Back to temps. - FR, Wed Sep 19 16:53:22 2007
• RE: Back to temps. - Sighthunter, Wed Sep 19 20:50:57 2007
• RE: Back to temps. - FR, Thu Sep 20 11:04:55 2007
• Reptile eggs - Sighthunter, Fri Sep 21 01:11:19 2007
• RE: Reptile eggs - FR, Fri Sep 21 09:19:47 2007
• RE: Reptile eggs - Sighthunter, Fri Sep 21 10:42:15 2007
• Sometimes my sense of humor... - SRX, Fri Sep 21 13:17:55 2007
• My sense of humor. - Sighthunter, Fri Sep 21 19:26:36 2007
• love this dialogue - jw, Wed Sep 19 21:11:36 2007