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Help! My corn had babies!

I went to wal-mart and they recommended the Expert Gardener Moisture Mix Potting Soil. The ingredients are: reed-sedge peat, composted forest products, sphagnum peat moss, horticultural perlite, ground dolomitic limestone, a wetting agent, time-released fertilizer and water holding polymer crystals (potassium polyacrylamide polymer). Is that ok? Or is the fertilizer unsafe?
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DO NOT USE THAT IT WILL PROBABLY KILL THE EGGS. No chemicals should ever come into contact with the substrate or eggs, they WILL absorb it and at the very least you will have deformed hatchlings. I would suggest using the moist paper towels in an airtight container you can get some vermiculite and or spagnum moss ( read the labels and make sure no chems.) Your biggest concern about humidity is to not have the substrate too wet, if they dry, they should dimple and that tells you to add more moisture. Search the forums here, there is plenty of info. on almost everything that you are asking. good luck :spinner:
 
Thanks for letting me know. I had a bad feeling about it, which is why I figured I should probably consult someone before doing anything. The eggs are on moist paper towels now. I just don't know how to tell when they're too moist or too dry
 
Look at pics in the breeding section. If they're white and not dimpled or yellowish and wet, you should be good.
 
They have little snowflake shaped dimples from when I found them, and look kind of cream colored (not as yellow as the slug we found, but def a yellowish hue). Also, two of them seemed a little sunken in on one side, but aren't anymore.
 
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