Thermometer in egg box?

I am new to breeding and I have one female who I think is building. She keeps looking fatter everyday and I'm not sure if its just me wanting her to look fat or she is in fact getting fatter. But I want to be prepared anyways. I picked up a reptibator from the classifieds a while ago and set it up for like a week to see if it worked. It does. The thing that I've heard about this incubator is that since the heat is on the top and so is the thermostat, the temps at the bottom of the inc or in the egg box can be different. People say to add a extra thermometer probe into the egg box to know the temp of the eggs. My question is do I suspend the probe in the egg box to know the ambient temperature or put the probe in the substrate to know the temp of that? Help will be appreciated! Thanks.

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i place the probe directly on the light diffuser in my egg box.

^^^^ that or sitting on top of the eggs them selves. As long as the thermometer is in the sealed container WITH the eggs you'll get an accurate reading of the temp of and at the eggs.
Be sure to adjust the temp of the bator to get the temp desired at the eggs.
And cover the 4 little air holes on the green stiraphom thing. Any other questions about the bator let me know. I hatched out my first clutch last season with one perfectly fine.

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Cool thanks. Anything else I need to know about the bator? I for it for 40 bux from the classifieds. I thought it was a fairly good deal! Any recommendations on thermometers? I was thinking accurite but I'm open to suggestions.

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Honestly I just got a 20$ digital one from petsmart that had a hygrometer and thermometer reading face.
Any will due.
Keep the sponge inside moist too to help maintain higher humidity and to keep any escaped humidity from the eggs in the bator.
Oh and don't open the bator lid too much. Its a bid lid so humidity escaped VERY quickly even if you open it for a split second. Trust me it frustrated the heck out of me that I wanted to see my first clutch so much.


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Did u use a egg box with a lid or without? I feel like not to much humidity would be lost if the egg box had a lid. I can see a bit escaping but not a whole lot. What did I have to have the temps at to keep em at 89 in the tubs?

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I use a digital reptibator to incubate my clutches. I only have a few...
Egg box is a Tupperware container with glad press and seal and then the lid.
Substrate is saturated vermiculite with egg crate/light diffuser to elevate the eggs. Thermometer sits on the egg crate/ light diffuser next to the eggs.
Incubator is set to 90 degrees and temp inside egg box sits at a stable 89.3/89.6
I open tubs once a week for a minute to let them breath and check growth ( this is much debated)...

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You also dontbhave to overthink things. Eggs will incubate fine between 86 and 90 degrees. As long as your not spiking and holding over 90 for long periods of time or dropping and holding below 86 you will be fine.

Remember at 6 weeks eggs begin to produce heat on their own.

As mentioned with a lid on the box.

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