I would wipe down the incubator with Quatricide or a 10% bleach to water solution. Let it air out well if you use bleach.
Just FYI, I have had good luck with Lotrimin AF (foot antifungal) on moldy leo eggs.
It is possible you are incubating too wet, try and get a local herper to assist you. It is just too dang hard to explain what the right consistency is to folks unless they get a demonstration.
You'll know more if the mold still crops up after you have done the sterlization.
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
Bryan Hess wrote:
I use a vermiculite, spahgnum mix. Ive lowered my humidity thinking that it was my problem, but with the same problems. Now Im wondering if Ive gotten to many mold spores in my incubator and I should tear everything apart anew to scrub everything clean?Most athletes foot powders the main ingredient is corn starch and the active ingredient is zinc oxide. So basically its the same as diaper rash creme.
Bryan
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I forget the brand I used. I just moved and most of everything is still
packed. Anyhow, as Cyndy mentioned, it's to be used on molding eggs. I
haven't had to use it on any of my lizard eggs, but I have used it on snake
eggs and with success.What are you using as an incubation medium? I've used either vermiculite or
bed-a-beast. I've only gotten mold on the eggs themselves and not the
medium. It sounds like you may have it too moist. In my experience, too
moist results in either drowned eggs or small hatchlings. I generally try
to keep all my eggs at about 60-75% humidity. With fertile eggs, I've had
either a 100% hatch rate or pretty darn close to 100% rate in: leopard
geckos, tokays, agulated gold dust day geckos, bearded dragon, anoles,
crested geckos, chuckwallas, collared lizards, desert iguanas, carpet
pythons, cal kings, and western hognose, ! all of which incubated at the
60-75% humidity range.Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyndy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:14 AM
Subject: Re:[Gecko] incubation
> I have heard of people putting the athlete's foot powder on eggs that are
starting to mold, but not in the medium.
> Cyndy
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> Ive heard people say that you can use athletes foot powder in your
incubation medium to help cut back on the growth of mold spores in humid egg
incubation chambers? Has anyone heard the same, or tried using it? Ive
also heard that corn starch could be used the same way? Any feed back.....
It seems Im always wrestling with mold growth and there spores.
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> Thanks,
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> Bryan
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