just curious...

Does anyone use their incubator also as a place for hatchling tubs?

I am about to make a hatchling rack and my wife asked me a pretty good question... She asked why I didn't just use the incubator to hold some of the hatchlings. My incubator can hold 8 perfect sized hatchling tubs. I figure the only problem with it (as long as I made some ventilation possible is that there would not be any temperature gradient.... It would all be the same temperature. Is that a show stopper even for hatchlings?


Mike

Never heard of anyone doing that. I have used the incubator for a snake with an RI but never hatchlings.

I did it temporarily for a couple of weeks, other than them not eating as well as in a rack, there were no issues.

However, if you have a temp spike, they can't get away from it like the can in a rack with a temp gradiant.

Go with the rack. :)

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Originally Posted by rabernet

I did it temporarily for a couple of weeks, other than them not eating as well as in a rack, there were no issues.

However, if you have a temp spike, they can't get away from it like the can in a rack with a temp gradiant.

Go with the rack. :)

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I agree, once its time to feed them you wanna separate them and give them access to a temp gradient. They should be fine in there until the first shed but then I would take them out.