what incubator do you use?

I built my own out of a wine cooler I found on CL. The compressor wasn't working and the person sold it for $25. I ordered heat tape from Reptile Basics and an AC fan off Amazon. The whole thing cost me about $60 and took about 2 hours time. It is not difficult at all and there are a number of threads in the forum here to figure it out.

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Originally Posted by guanagator

I haven't had any issues with the exo terra one, I use it for chameleon eggs and live in Florida so having both heating and cooling function was important to me. Once I get to the point of having multiple clutches of Bps I'll likely upgrade to a hot box seen a few in person and they are well built.

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I'm in Florida as well. I have a dedicated reptile room to which I use ambient temps for my bp's.

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I built my own out of a wine cooler I found on CL. The compressor wasn't working and the person sold it for $25. I ordered heat tape from Reptile Basics and an AC fan off Amazon. The whole thing cost me about $60 and took about 2 hours time. It is not difficult at all and there are a number of threads in the forum here to figure it out.

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Mine is a wine chiller also, that I had in my garage taking up space. Since I heat my reptile room, I used the VE300 t-stat that was controlling hot spots, and some unused heat tape. The only thing I ended up buying was extra thermostats. I may take apart a pc I no longer use and add the fan from it to circulate the air...


Edit: since it had wire "shelves" I found some hard plastic cutting boards on clearance, cut them down to size, drilled some holes for the air/heat to pass, and those are my shelves now.

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Edit: since it had wire "shelves" I found some hard plastic cutting boards on clearance, cut them down to size, drilled some holes for the air/heat to pass, and those are my shelves now.

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Mine had wire shelves also so I took and cut light diffuser panels to size and zip tied them to the shelf. It works great and still allows air to fully circulate through the incubator.

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Mine had wire shelves also so I took and cut light diffuser panels to size and zip tied them to the shelf. It works great and still allows air to fully circulate through the incubator.

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That's great! I wish I had thought of that. I had extra diffuser material left over from egg boxes. :P

Nature's Spirit incubator. Basically the original commercial incubator. I'll go by them until I stop breeding.

I built my own and have never regretted it. I always encourage people to think ahead. You may not need anything big now but why invest in one that holds a couple tubs and in a year realize you're addicted to the BP thing and need a bigger one then. DIY is very easy. Also as others have stated, you'll be more familiar with it and be able to troubleshoot any possible problems that may arise.

after my very first season and learning that the cheap reptipro was a waste of money and time we built our own. for the last 2 yrs my old royal crown cola fridge has been running non stop and no problems. 150 on fridge & gutted added light switch dimmer for fans and an outlet for the heat tape controlled by the old brick style thermostat under the unit . all in maybe 3-400 but i did pay a premium for the fridge as i needed one dearly with a few gravid females at the time! but yes if your in it to produce babies id recommend that you build your own ....:gj:

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I will have to ponder it and see if my husband will help me with a build.

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You can scale this down to suit your own needs, but DIY is the way to go. Half the cost of commercial incubators and mine holds 48 clutches....

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...rogress-thread

For BP I started with a 120 Quarts cooler years go and than upgraded to this

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...ncubator-1.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a.../Incubator.png

This year I am upgrading to a 48 inches Hotbox

For Hognose I use a small cooler.