Repashy

[BocaJan]

Has anyone used Repash to incubate their eggs? How did you do it and were you successful? I bought some for my upcoming laying and the directions aren't too good on the bag. If your cham lays 28 - 32 eggs does it take the whole bag or 1/2 bag?

I'm hoping to get some direction here....

 

[Hoj]

I have a bag but I have not needed it yet. I will take a look at it tomorrow and see, but hopefully someone chimes in before then.

 

[clarkrw3]

I have a bunch of the stuff and was planning on using it to incubate my eggs but when the time came for my Nosy Faly clutch I got cold feet. In the gecko world everyone swears by the stuff...but no one in the cham would seems to really know and the hit I have heard is it doesn't hold moisture as long term as we need for cham egg incubation. I currently have gecko eggs using it but when I went to dig up my cham eggs I put them in tried and true vermiculite. I just could not find any definitive info on using it with chameleons and when you are talking about 27 Nosy Faly eggs that's quite an investment to risk to something new....call me what you will

 

[Zen Reptiles]

I have had good and very, very bad experiences with it. I've hatched 3 clutches on it so far, but I've lost about 4 clutches total now trying to use it.

As mentioned above, the problem is the 6,7, 10 months it takes for chams to hatch. When you go to reapply water when it looks like it needs it, you realize 'HOLY s*** IT'S ALL DRY' when you think it's just the surface that is dry.....and then you add too much and BAM you've got water drowning your embryos.

It's easy to get going to begin with, but reapplying water when you have eggs on top of the Repashy is tricky and risky business. After about 3 months it looks fine (moisture wise), but after 4-5 months it dries up quick, leaving your eggs in bone-dry conditions if you don't 'catch' it at that right moment when it gets dry, and don't add too much water.

It's awesome for geckos, but chams no way. I am now using more conventional methods.

 

[panther67]

Some friends of my have been using it for their geckos and their veileds... They swear by it. I am going to try my next clutch.

 

[Allen Repashy]

I have had good and very, very bad experiences with it. I've hatched 3 clutches on it so far, but I've lost about 4 clutches total now trying to use it.

As mentioned above, the problem is the 6,7, 10 months it takes for chams to hatch. When you go to reapply water when it looks like it needs it, you realize 'HOLY s*** IT'S ALL DRY' when you think it's just the surface that is dry.....and then you add too much and BAM you've got water drowning your embryos.

It's easy to get going to begin with, but reapplying water when you have eggs on top of the Repashy is tricky and risky business. After about 3 months it looks fine (moisture wise), but after 4-5 months it dries up quick, leaving your eggs in bone-dry conditions if you don't 'catch' it at that right moment when it gets dry, and don't add too much water.

It's awesome for geckos, but chams no way. I am now using more conventional methods.

Some simple management will insure you have the right amount of moisture, and can easily add the right amount of water back.....

Set up the whole container with mixed media, eggs, lid and everything.... then weigh it...

Then weigh it once a month and whatever the weight difference is from the beginning, is the amount of water that has evaporated... (you can also subtract a few grams each for any bad eggs you pull out along the way)......you can just pour back the amount of water that has evaporated and you are back to square one..... or you can adjust as you go if you want the eggs to be a bit drier towards the end of the incubation period.

The color change of the product allows you to visually keep an eye on things.

I would think that everyone incubating eggs that take a long time to hatch would be monitoring things this way with whatever media they were using.

Cheers, Allen