egg setting please help

[leppisrocks]

hey ive been producing many eggs but only 3 out of twenty hatch. i have to put my eggs in a incubator full of snake eggs thats exactly 89 degrees.
i put the eggs on a pvc grid with water on the bottom.can you please tell me what im doing wrong and how to fix it :help:

 

[leopardgeckos96]

try putting them in a deli cup with moistened vermiculite, perlite, or hatchrite then put the eggs in the medium
for exact water to medium ratios look it up on youtube because there are a lot of dfferenent ways to do it

 

[roger]

hey ive been producing many eggs but only 3 out of twenty hatch. i have to put my eggs in a incubator full of snake eggs thats exactly 89 degrees.
i put the eggs on a pvc grid with water on the bottom.can you please tell me what im doing wrong and how to fix it :help:

what incubator are u using?.Use 8 or 16 oz deli containers with no holes in them.Use damp vermiculite 1:1 ratio.This method works for me.i was like u where none of my eggs were hatching.Although i thought my vermiculite was ok in fact it was to moist.i then tryed the 1:1 ration and my eggs started to make it to full term and then hatching

 

[acpart]

The set-up you're describing, with the eggs on PVC and water below as the "substrate" is similar to the SIM set-up, where the eggs are suspended above the substrate and the substrate is providing the humidity. There are a few things you should consider:
--the SIM method does have the eggs resting on their grid in a smaller container than the incubator. This means that there's a smaller area that has to be kept humid. I have tried this method using water crystal gel as a substrate and didn't get the signs of high humidity I'd expect (water droplets clinging to the sides of the container) that I got with a water an perlite mixture (with water and perlite I had to have a lot more water than the usual 1:1 mixture for when the eggs are buried in the perlite.
--89 degrees is the upper extreme for leopard gecko eggs and may be too high for some of these eggs, especially if the temperature is varying a bit
--if you gecko(s) are first-timers, there's a chance that a lot of the eggs may be infertile at first.

Good luck,

Aliza