How does everyone incubate their colubrid eggs? I use perlite with a 1 part perlite to .8 part water mixture. This is my method:
I place the container I am incubating in on the scale and tare it out. I then place my perlite in the container. I try to get the perlite to an even number like 200 grams. I then mulitply the perlite weight by .8. This is how much water you should add. To avoid confusion, you can tare the scale out again. I then use a spray bottle to spray the perlite until I get my taget water weight. I always set the containers up about a week before I am expecting a female to lay. (Doesnt always work out because the snakes dont read the books!) Once eggs are laid, I place the eggs directly in the perlite and try to bury the eggs about half way. Place the lid back on the container. I do not put holes in the lids. I open the containers once a week or so to allow air exchange.

Pretty simple and has worked well for me for years!!!

Vermiculite, no idea what the ratio is I just add water till it clumps. Large deli cups pre punched in Hovabator is the only thing I use for colubrid sized eggs. Works!

I have always filled a big container full of perlite then add a bunch of water.

Let it sit for a few mins then just squeeze out all the water I can and fill up the incubating containers.

I put one single hole in the container and toss them on a shelf (I don't incubate corn eggs in an incubator personally but my house is always warm) and check on them every few weeks.

Vermiculite, no idea what the ratio is I just add water till it clumps. Large deli cups pre punched in Hovabator is the only thing I use for colubrid sized eggs. Works!

I used vermiculite for years until I couldnt get it one year. Someone showed me how they used perlite (cant remember who now) and have been using it ever since. I think they both work well!

I used vermiculite for years until I couldnt get it one year. Someone showed me how they used perlite (cant remember who now) and have been using it ever since. I think they both work well!

I get the 25lb bag from a local nursey/landscape place.... but whatever works is all that matters, you could be using broken glass mixed with molten lava.... as long as it works....

I get the 25lb bag from a local nursey/landscape place.... but whatever works is all that matters, you could be using broken glass mixed with molten lava.... as long as it works....

Think I might try to find some and set up a couple clutches in both to see which works better for me... Havent done that before!

Wow... I guess Im just odd... but I have had wonderfull results

I use Bed-a-beast

drill a couple holes in the container... moisten the BAB with hot water around the edges... place eggs in.... put lid on.... place in high location in herp room. It stays around 84* at that height.

In 2 years (the amount of time I have been breeding) I have had 100% hatch rate doing it this way. Next year I will be using an incubator... and prob wont be able to hatch a damn thing.

Well, tricolor hognose eggs hatch anywhere from 78 to 104 days so I use air tight containers that I open once a week. Perlite / water mixture. If I do 60g of perlite, then I will do 55 g of water. No exact measurement, just a little less water. I also incubate the tricolors at 78 degrees. When I incubated at 82 I had a lot of deformities, so all the colubrids get incubated at 78 now.