Making an Incubator ?

kyote19 - Glad to help. I also have a mini fridge that I am wanting to convert, but then I am not sure if I should just go ahead and do a full size fridge.

Good luck on your Mini Fridge!! :gj:

l791020 - Thank you for your recommendation, I will definitely look into it.

Thank you!

I found that site a while back. I made one just like that only not the same type of fridge. Mine has worked great. The only thing i would say if you can try to find some kind of upright freezer alot more room. I want to breed a few more females this year maybe. The incubator i have now will be to small. I use the Helix DBS 1000 and it has worked great. I have a 4 foot piece of 11 inch wide heat tape. It runs down the back of the fridge Here are a few pics of how mine is setup. Not the best pics. Im going to be getting a huge upright freezer to use next year. Anyways heres some crappy pics.
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Like i said not the best looking incubator but it works great. I need something taller. So i can fit more egg boxes in it. Ive used it for corn eggs ball eggs and leopard gecko eggs thats whats in the pics. I wouldnt go out an buy a new fridge or anything like that. You can check with the stores that sell them. Most of the time when they sell a new one and drop it off at your house they will take away the old one. Most of the stores have to pay to get rid of them. Check around make some calls. See if any of them have any used one that dont work. If you pick it up most of the places should just give it to you. Thats how i got two of them. Ended up using just the one. One more thing think about the mini fridge thing. Next year or the year after you might want to breed more. You will need something bigger. Good to start out with something bigger than you need then you can grow into it. Yah you might not need a 7 foot tall upright freezer this year or next. But someday maybe. just something to think about.

Helix T-stats are awesome. Mine never failed me. I built my successful incubator out of a large (roughly 2.5 foot by 1.5 foot rectanglar) styro cooler. I used 2 feet of flexwatt atop a flourescent-light grid thingie below the egg tubs. I placed small soda bottles filled with water under the grid atop the FW to provide ballast to store heat when the top was opened. Then the boxes atop the grid.. bottles alongside them.. and it worked awesome. I did melt a few airholes into the egg boxes (r-maid) because there was alot of condensation and I did nto want it to drip onto the eggs, and it did not.
You can buy prewired FW from reptilebasics.. this is what I did.