egg incubation

[VodoMamaJuju]

hello, i was wondering about the correct incubator for my veiled eggs, i have a big rubber maid have quart of it in water with a aquarium heater and a stand to put the the tubberwear with eggs in it but i was wondering if i should poke holes in the tubberwear which holds the eggs ? i thought i had to poke holes so after a week of incubation the rubbermaid top started to have alot of water droplet above so it was raining down on the eggs container so it now has water on it and a bit of water is running inside the egg container so that makes me think if i shouldnt have poked holes in it ? and if i should have poked holes what way i can do to stop the water from pouring inside

 

[kinyonga]

If the eggs get too wet they can take on too much water and it will likely kill the embryos.
What temperature are the eggs at? What is the temperature of your house?
What substrate are you incubating them on?

 

[VodoMamaJuju]

If the eggs get too wet they can take on too much water and it will likely kill the embryos.
What temperature are the eggs at? What is the temperature of your house?
What substrate are you incubating them on?

i use perlite as substrate with 50-50 water ratio, its around 81 degrees inside the egg container and the house temp is 70

 

[reptileguy112]

You should just use some sterile perlite in a deli cup or rubbermaid container that is moist. When you first set up the container poke small holes in the lid and weigh it. Every week or two weigh it again and add enough water to the perlite to match the original weight. 72 to 84 is ok, mid to high seventies are best.

 

[reptileguy112]

You can also use moist play sand which is much easier in my opinion.

 

[kinyonga]

I never incubated the veiled eggs that high. I kept them in the mid 70's.
I've used slightly moist vermiculite for years now. I find soils and playsand are too hard to keep evenly moist. There is always moisture on the inside of the container and inside of the lid. It's like a mini ecosystem....but yours sounds like a problem. In some containers I poked tiny holes and others I didn't...it made no difference.

If the substrate gets too moist the eggs can take on too much water and it can kill the embryos.
I always used a people's heating pad (the type that isn't on a timer) under a frame made of 2x2's and screen...and put shoebox sized containers of eggs on too of the screen. I kept the whole thing in the dark. I hatched chameleons, geckos, water dragons, turtles/tortoises, cone heads, etc with the same setup. The temperature could be adjusted by raising or lowering the frame over the heating pad.

 

[VodoMamaJuju]

that still doesnt answer my main question which is the egg container holes ? should i poke holes in it or no? because the water droplets from the bottem water of the egg incubator is droppng down on the egg container and getting inside

 

[kinyonga]

You said a "bit of water is running inside the egg container"...i said if the substrate gets too moist the eggs can take on too much water...so...If your egg container is taking on too much water you need to change things so that won't happen....so that would mean not having holes for the water to run into the container through ....or finding some other way of setting up the incubator differently so the water won't collect there and run in. I explained that I don't incubate the eggs that way. Since I don't incubate that way I can't tell you any more specifically than that.

 

[VodoMamaJuju]

You said a "bit of water is running inside the egg container"...i said if the substrate gets too moist the eggs can take on too much water...so...If your egg container is taking on too much water you need to change things so that won't happen....so that would mean not having holes for the water to run into the container through ....or finding some other way of setting up the incubator differently so the water won't collect there and run in. I explained that I don't incubate the eggs that way. Since I don't incubate that way I can't tell you any more specifically than that.

okay boss i just thought if not poking holes so air wont change and that might damage the incubation process