Egg Box Temps

Your temps are gonna flucuate but they should be sitting in the 88 to 90 range and thats perfect. Keep in mind the fan should be runnin 24/7. The fans purpose is only to move air not to cool. Therefore you dont need a big fan. Just something to move air. In my walk in incubator which is 5 ft wide by 4 ft deep by 7 ft tall only has a small computer fan running. It keeps air moving without cooling. I also have 6 buckets filled with water with tops to help hold heat. Now scale that down for a smaller bator. I have one egg box with the same mix in it just for my probe. This probe box sits on the middle shelf. Sure there is a little flucuation between shelves but as long as your steady temps are in the right range your good. Keep in mind for thousands of years in the wild these snakes have been incubating eggs and the temps are never 100% stable.

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Originally Posted by JohnNJ

So if I take this a little further, is it safe to assume that there is difference in temps from upper and lower shelves it will just effect the hatch date and not the development.

IOW, the top shelf boxes at 90 degrees will hatch a few days earlier than the bottom shelf boxes at 87 degrees but the babies will all be OK, generally speaking.

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Yep. :gj:

It would really only matter if you were planning on cutting the eggs as far as having different hatch dates. The eggs kept at the lower temp will take a bit longer to cook. I like to keep my incubator between 88.5-89. I've had great luck so far.