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If you use hatchrite in your egg tubs, do you have to ever moisten it other than if you notice that it is alot less moist?

It's going to depend on how much you use, the size of the container and a few other things. I've had chameleon eggs go 9 months in a sandwich sized container and I never added any water. I had beaded lizard eggs in a good sized container and I added water 1 time through out their incubation. I'll be cutting ball python eggs here soon and I didn't have to add any water. Just monitor the conditions. If you see the water crystals chances are you have plenty of moisture. You can easily tell when the stuff drys out. It's not cheap but I love the stuff! I'm looking at trying the egg crate method though.
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John Light

Are you going to use any medium under the egg crate(light diffuser)? I think you will love it. Works like a charm for me everytime.
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JEMreptiles@gmail.com from sunny AZ.

Lots of cool Ball Pythons along with
0.0.1 Vietnamese Blue Beauty and some great Bull snakes.
1.1 Argentinian Black and White Tegus
1.0 Gotti Pitbull (Tank)
2.0 Beautiful Bengals (Stryker and Cynbad)
12 Tarantulas
Last but most Important 2.2 Children

I'm not sure yet, still doing some research on it.
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John Light

It is all I use...I have 3 clutches of ball eggs sitting in it right now and hopefully 17 more clutches to go.
Here is how I use it with 100% hatch rate on fertile eggs for bearded dragons back when I was producing them and now Balls, Hogs and Woma's.
I fill my tubs about 1/3 with hatch rite add eggs, 1/2 buried, and weight the whole tub. Half way through incubation I re-way the tub and add the appropriate amount of water from a spray bottle, spraying the end of the tub and not the eggs, till the weight is the same or close to starting weight. Most times I don't even add water.
Eggs due to hatch in less than 15 days.
I have used vermic, perelite and combos of both but the results with hatch rite is so much better. Never tried the crate method and probably never will. If it works why fix it.
It is costly to do the 2 lb bags so I do the 20 lb bulk. But even at the 2 lb cost it makes up for it in the hatch ratio.

Travis
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LAIR OF DRAGONS

Left some factor...1/4" hole in one end of the box...and I open the lid every four or five days just to exchange air...88.5 average degrees inside the boxes according to all the digital thermometers.
Travis
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LAIR OF DRAGONS