Monitoring humidity in egg tub?

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Originally Posted by Alicia

The eggs themselves are the best gauges of proper humidity, they never lie. That said, I bought one of these this year, for trying out MI:
http://beanfarm.com/product_info.php...oducts_id=5704

It is not super cheap, but it's working really well for me.

Editing to clarify: Yep, the humidity is indeed taken at the probe, so the body of the thermometer can sit outside the cage/incubator/whatever. Its reaction time seems pretty quick, too.

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Thank you, I got this one, they shipped it very quickly, and it's working beautifully.

if you have your eggs on egg grate it really doesn't matter how moist your substrate is .. the more humidity the better .. therefore this is how I do it .. i put SO MUCH WATER in the substrate that it pretty much looks like a swimming pool, when there is so much water that it comes OUT of the substrate that is when i stop, i put the grate on and the eggs on the grate (eggs must not be in contact with the water - this is the only thing that matters) .. the humidty is so high that in a few days there is condensation and huge water drops all over the inside of the box with the eggs .. the only important thing is to make sure the water doesn't drip on your eggs
if you do it like I do you will never need to monitor humidity in the tubs ever again since it's as high as it can possibly get
regards, Andrej