Im making my own incubator and trying to hatch my leopard geckos eggs but no store around me has any vermiculite, perlite, or hatch rite. I have plenty of wet moss that i have in their wet hide and they lay in it with the eco earth rock hide. So can i use the wet moss as an incubation substrate?
We use a sheet of flexwatt under a styrofoam cooler. Inside we have small containers with one small air hole containing a small layer of perlite and then a layer of vermiculite moistened. We keep ours at about 86 degrees like this and dont mess with them until the newborns hatch
we use a small 18inch viv, with the eggs placed in a small tub containing moist perlite with a heat mat linked to a thermostat so they eggs are at a constant temperature. this way works really well as some of our eggs hatched after only 36 days...and they were at the lower temps for females as well. in the past though we have used the same setup only in a polystyrene fish box. once we even managed to incubate eggs successfully in the airing cupboard!!
