Incubater failed

Hi all

My incubater broke down today while i was away from home and the temps had dropped to 68.9´f :tears:

It has been running rock stable for 4 days and then suddenly while i´m away the heater shuts of :rage:

I´m not sure how long the temps have been that low.

Now i fear all 8 eggs are dead, do you think there is any chance that some of them have survived??

Was my first clutch, i´m sooo sad, :tears:

There's no way to know until you try. Get them back up to the temp they were at before the failure, and wait and see.

I'd say the eggs could be fine.

eggs could be fine and the failure could only been due to something simple. You would need to let us know what the failure was . the tstat, heating element or what. I not hada true failure outside the one strip I had wired up of flex and it compress between the caged and floor. and melted until it totally failed. I never knew untilI moved the cage. and seen the burn marks onthe floor.( lucky mee it was ascrap piece of tile I had down.) so not too much of a yelling. I seen my coke machine hold temps pretty good ( with out the water bottles used to keep heat incase of a failure( might be a good ideal for next year.)

Thanks for your fast reply's, great to hear that there is still hope:)

I was lucky one of my freinds had a working incubater and he was at home. So now the eggs are warm again.

I think it is the heating element that failed, the incubater seemed to work normal(lights and ventilation was working)but it couldn't raise temps above 68,9'f

it's a brand new lucky reptiles herp nersery 2(not sure you know that brand?) have only been runing for four days

Before you put a clutch in a new incubator you should let the incubator run for at least a month to make sure everything stays good and is at a constant temp.

This way you can correct any problems the incubator had and make sure it's good to go & ready for your clutch.

My incubator accidentally became unplugged about 1/2 way through incubation for about a day before I discovered it (I remember when I moved the furniture that hit the plug). They went on to hatch healthy babies.

from what i understand low temps are not really the killers its the high temps that are, i think they will be fine :gj:

Now i´m getting optimistic again :banana:

I´ll keep my fingers crossed the next couple of days...

Thanks for yor help :gj:, i´ll get back when i know more..

When my wife went into labour I left a clutch tubbed up but out on top of some vivs for 2 weeks. Temps varied from 72 to 88. I finally remembered, incubated them and they all hatched @ 68-70 days. So there's hope :)

yea u really need to run the incubator for a while before hand to make sure everything will work right i built my incubator about 5 months before i got eggs and ran it to be sure everything would hold up

Oh no! :(

Do you keep water bottles in there? If you keep a bunch of water in there, it holds the heat pretty long.

Good luck!

Hi all

Here is a little update::::

They all made it not one egg went bad :banana: :) got 4.0 lesser platinum and 2.2 normal and they are all healthy and normal size..

So they can survive a rather big temp drop....

Thank you all for your support :gj:

Pictures are a must!

Cheers,
-Matt

the eggs are hardy just go buy a new incubater

Congrats!!!

Congrats! Glad things worked out!

Awesome!!! Yes, pics please :) Congrats!

congrats insead of buying another incubator u should build ur own cheaper and i think better that the ones u buy