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Has anyone used the "Miracle Grow" pearlite from home depot? It says right on the bag NON TOXIC and SAFE but it enriched with Nitrogen... I used this on my clutch of Black Pines and It seems to have really made the bottoms of the eggs look wet or almost translucent ... Now im nervous .. Ive taken them off and i now have them on sphagnum...

Anyone have any insight?

Thanks

Tom

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Safari Tom
See'em Touch'em Save'em

1.1 Black Pines
1.0 Snow bull
0.1 Albino Bull
1.2 Kingsville/Stillwaters
1.1 Whitesided Bulls
0.0.1 Cape Gopher
1.0 Normal Honduran het for albino
0.1 Anerythristic Honduran Het albino/anery
0.1 Tangerine Honduran
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Too late now-but had you asked I would have said not to use it! You never want to use either perlite or vermiculite with any additives whatsoever. I'd be worried too.
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Brad Chambers
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The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

>>Too late now-but had you asked I would have said not to use it! You never want to use either perlite or vermiculite with any additives whatsoever. I'd be worried too.
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>>Brad Chambers
>>WWW.HCU-TX.ORG
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>>The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....
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Thanks,

Frank Roberts

I have seen three eggs go bad the same way (get clear and flatten a little) while two others remain white and do fine ,so you may have just had a bad first clutch, or if not a first clutch, it maybe just that your male misfired or maybe they did not breed at all due to being kept too warm in the winter, males more than need to be at 55* for two or so months...

yea i used that stuff years ago on my first ever clutch and they did the same as u described, they were cal king eggs and all but one died, but i was an inexperianced teenager and didnt swap them over so hopefully you dont have the same result as i did
good luck

Thanks for the responses... So far the eggs look ok , its just the bottoms have gone translucent .... I sure hope they didnt absorb any of that dan nitrogen ... not sure wht the effecdt would be ...

Ill keep you posted ...

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Safari Tom
See'em Touch'em Save'em

1.1 Black Pines
1.0 Snow bull
0.1 Albino Bull
1.2 Kingsville/Stillwaters
1.1 Whitesided Bulls
0.0.1 Cape Gopher
1.0 Normal Honduran het for albino
0.1 Anerythristic Honduran Het albino/anery
0.1 Tangerine Honduran
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