Yes. Temps are higher a degree or two, but the eggs can handle a little higher temp the last 2 weeks. They can also get dripped on from condensation as well. I have condensation on the sides of my boxes after a couple of days of incubation using the subtrateless method. At about the 5 week mark I start to get droplets on top. These drops don't drip on the eggs. They just "hang there". We are talking as close to 100% humidity as you can get. Eggs are pretty darn tough after 45 days IMHO.

I don't open my egg container AT ALL until that 7-10 day 47-50 day mark when I take the PressNSeal off. I want my eggs to breathe at this and 100% humidiy is unnecessary at that late date.

I LOVE subtrateless. It is easy to set up eggs after they lay --no mixing!!! Easy before I head out for work!!! I have 20 clutches on the ground so far -- another 30 cooking with another 25 or more on the way( my breeding seasons will be merging somewhere around October 15th!!!!) and I can say that my incubation is something I don't worry about AT ALL. I have had only the expected issues (2 random severely kinked animals -- taking a nap in freezer...ZZZZZZ, 4 eggs gone bad and 2 die in the egg). I candle my eggs and I trash any egg that does not show ANY veins along with the slugs. This is why I have very few eggs go bad in the boxes I suspect -- I don't incubate "iffy" eggs. Probably more info than you wanted, but I remember the HIGH DEGREE OF ANGST that I had about hatching eggs. Good luck!!!

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Bill Buchman

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