Re: Confusion on incubators.
I'm not good with builds. I get frustrated and throw them off a bridge or run them over. Plus even a mini fridge is too big right now. I don't need something that large for 1 clutch. I just have the 2 BPs. I would prefer something that is easy to use.
Re: Confusion on incubators.
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Phantomtip
I'm not good with builds. I get frustrated and throw them off a bridge or run them over. Plus even a mini fridge is too big right now. I don't need something that large for 1 clutch. I just have the 2 BPs. I would prefer something that is easy to use.
You aren't "building" anything per se. You're taping flexwatt (that you can buy prewired) to the back of a fridge (or Igloo cooler, whatever), filling some soda bottles with water, and plugging the flexwatt into a thermostat. Or, spend a few hundred dollars to have someone else attach a heating element to an insulated box and have an unreliable thermostat that you should replace with a Herpstat anyway. :gj:
Re: Confusion on incubators.
I was wondering what people thought of the 2 incubators I posted about. I plan to get a thermostat for what ever incubator I get. I also as I stated don't have the patience to put things like a build your own together. I would get really irritated and toss the whole darn thing. Plus I have a 2 yr old that loves to get into everything and would like something small that I can place out of his reach. If I were to breed multiple clutches then I would definitely consider a build your own with an old mini fridge. But with just 1 possible clutch (that wasn't intentionally bred) then I would like to just get a small nicely built one I can add to. Like adding a good thermostat, and thermometer hygrometer.
Re: Confusion on incubators.
Get the hovabator, it has hatched tons of reptiles. Set the hovabator at a good 91 degrees, and also buy a Herpstat. When you have the hovabator "dialed in", plug it into the herpstat, put the herstat probe about 1" above the screen, and set it at 88.5. good luck.
Re: Confusion on incubators.
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Originally Posted by
Phantomtip
I was wondering what people thought of the 2 incubators I posted about. I plan to get a thermostat for what ever incubator I get. I also as I stated don't have the patience to put things like a build your own together. I would get really irritated and toss the whole darn thing. Plus I have a 2 yr old that loves to get into everything and would like something small that I can place out of his reach. If I were to breed multiple clutches then I would definitely consider a build your own with an old mini fridge. But with just 1 possible clutch (that wasn't intentionally bred) then I would like to just get a small nicely built one I can add to. Like adding a good thermostat, and thermometer hygrometer.
Making your own incubator is incredibly easy:
1. buy a styrofoam cooler, a foot or so of heat tape from reptile basics (they will wire it for you), some aluminum foil tape, and a thermostat (preferably something like the herpstat intro +)
2. Using the foil tape, tape the heat tape into the cooler
3. Pass the heat tape cord out of the cooler and plug it into the thermostat
4. Place the thermostat's probe inside the cooler and set the thermostat to the desired incubation temperature.
5. Add eggs
If I had to chose between the 2 you listed I would go with the hovabator, but personally I wouldn't trust either of them.