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Posts: 7 (02/23/06 12:38:15) |
Hello all! I am new to this forum so I thought I would try it out. I am expecting my first clutch of GTP eggs in about a week or so and I am trying to get the conditions right in the cage. I have read "The Complete Chondro" and it says to have high relative humidity. What are we talking for high humidity?? I have it at about 60% right now. Is this ok or do I need to try to get it higher? Thank you and I look forward to being a part of the chondro community.
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Posts: 43 (02/23/06 13:34:30) |
I'm not an expert here, I haven't bred mt GTP's yet, but I believe you may need to increase the humidity a bit, but not so that the cage is really wet. As I understand it although GTP eggs do need humidity, they are not supposed to physically have water touch the eggs as this will destroy them. Perhaps increased spraying, but really you need to talk to someone who has experience in this matter as I believe most breeders now opt for artificial incubation. Funny though that the one guy I talked to about artificial incubation was very cagey about revealing his exact methods of doing it, and would only say you have to get it "just right" and that you learn through experience. I hope someone here can help you out.
Cheers Matthew |
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Posts: 158 (02/24/06 07:49:47) |
Hello Brad and welcome to the Forum
The humidity of the environment of a maternally incubating female does not have to be "high", humidity as much as it has to be consistent humidity. Here is a quote from "The more Complete Chondro". "The only conditions required for successful maternal incubation, once a good clutch is laid in the nest box and the female is willing to brood them, is adequate humidity and the correct ambient temperature. Notice I said adequate humidity, not high humidity". Here are several more qoutes that may help: "Excessive moisture is a great enemy to chondro eggs, and many new breeders would be surprised to see the moderate level of humidity that will successfully hatch maternally incubated eggs". and finally: "The goal is a moderately humid chamber that is neither too dry nor too wet". Quoted from The more Complete Chondro By Greg Maxwell. Pg number 257 It should be clear from these statements that your amount of humidity may be fine. If you can see any of the eggs in the midst of her coils, try to determine if the shells of those eggs look plump and filled out, or are they dented and sunken. If the shells are dented and sunken you need to increase the amount of humidity, if the shells are to tight and filled out excessively, you need to decrease the amount of humidity. Let those eggs tell you the amount of humidity that they need. And finally, just as Matthew stated; do not get any water on those eggs! "True Rainforest cages"
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baddefense |
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Posts: 7 (02/26/06 07:15:20) |
Thank you both for the information. I have been out of the game for a little while because I started grad school so I did not realize Maxwell had put out another book. I will be getting that real soon. And thank you for the advice on humdity for the eggs. I will be pretty excited for my first clutch so I am sure I will be raving about on here soon enough.
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