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Hi ,i have leopard gecko eggs and they are getting a lot of fungus or something on it.The temperature is 82 degrees and the humidity is 89%.They are incubating in a home made incubator(tank) with vercumulite.Is the humidity too high and if so what can i do

Thanx

Change the vermiculite (throw the old stuff out and add new stuff), mist it with water until it is very moist BUT NOT WET. Take a tissue and wipe the fungus off and sprinkle very sparse amounts of anti-athletes foot powder around the eggs, and put a ver very small amount of the eggs themselves. This should fix the problem.

Cleo
1:1 leos (6 eggs incubating)

a more "accurate" way of getting a good amount of water in the vermiculite is to soak it, and then squeeze as much water out as you can, with it still being "clumpy".
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I am not putting down vermiculite because some people have good success with it but I will never use it again after useing Albeys method with Perlite. Go to www.albeysreptiles.com and look under incubation. On the other hand they may be infertile a good fertile egg is very resistant to mold but I had lots of trouble with vermiculite with some decent eggs.