Animal Plastics Incubator

I recently received my AP Incubator http://www.animalplastics.com/ and hooked it up to a Herpstat Thermostat http://www.spyderrobotics.com/ I placed five thermometers including one Nist Certified FRIO-Temp Enviro-Safe™ Incubator Thermometer http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/pr...0807759&pfx=EW

I must say I’m very impressed with this incubator as the Herpstat maintained the temperature inside with minus 1-degree fluctuation and was uniform throughout.

The incubator can hold 16 Sterilite 1717 boxes that can be purchased at WalMart http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sterilite-...-of-6/11014790.


http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...PIncubator.jpg

Nice! Keep us informed on how your clutches turn out with it! :gj:

It looks very nice! Good luck with it!

Looks real nice! :D

I've been looking at that one.

I was looking at that. Is it worth $800? I use an old full size refrigerator and I don't know if it's worth upgrading?

In comparison to other incubators on the market and not wanting to convert an old refrigerator into an incubator or build one myself it was worth it to me otherwise I wouldn’t have purchased it. It’s a great design, circulates the air without hot spots, looks good and does what it’s supposed to do plus I can monitor the eggs without opening the door.

I looked for some feedback on this incubator and couldn't find any so I figured for anyone looking for more information on this unit, here you go. :)

Do you have any pictures of yours set up. Ap isn't very good at updating there website an all they have is the front page info on it

I am doing my research on an incubator right now. One thing I have been wondering is how efficeint are these incubators. For example, if you to unplug the heat source, how fast does the temperature fall? I guess some important statistics would be internal volume, starting temperature, ending temperature, and elapsed time. I wonder how these statistics would compare to homemade incubators. Of course this would have to be done without any water bottles, or there would have to be an established ratio of how much volume of water to how much internal volume of the incubator to keep things fair. Just currious if anyone knows how these, and other manufactured, incubators do at holding in the heat.

I just realized that I omitted another important statistic to keep track of, ambient temperature. Sorry for forgetting that one.

I've had my eye on that incubator as well. Thanks for posting, I'd like to hear more about it.

Anyone know if the Nist Certified FRIO-Temp Envirosafe™ Incubator Thermometer comes in fahrenheit also?

I have this incubator and I'm impressed overall with the form and function. so far I have incubated 37 clutches this season and I could not be more pleased with the results. I have ultramel x pewter eggs, pin het ghost x ultra, and ultra x axanthic eggs not to mention the others I'm also worried about in terms of success rate. The ap incubator is doing it's job well. I hope This helps out.

Ray Wilke

I have this incubator and I love it. I will be ordering another one for next season.

Not much of a photo, but at least it shows the inside.

http://www.geckobabies.com/facility/incubator1.jpg

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Originally Posted by Adam Chandler

Anyone know if the Nist Certified FRIO-Temp Envirosafe™ Incubator Thermometer comes in fahrenheit also?

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You can convert Fahrenheit to Celsius here.
http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

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Originally Posted by bammer838

I have this incubator and I'm impressed overall with the form and function. so far I have incubated 37 clutches this season and I could not be more pleased with the results. I have ultramel x pewter eggs, pin het ghost x ultra, and ultra x axanthic eggs not to mention the others I'm also worried about in terms of success rate. The ap incubator is doing it's job well. I hope This helps out.

Ray Wilke

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I agree this incubator is does a great job incubating eggs, I have zero complaints and plan on getting more of these incubators as needed.

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Originally Posted by Serpents_Den

You can convert Fahrenheit to Celsius here.
http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

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Guess that's a no:(
Someday soon the world will finally convert from that ridiculous "metric"
system to the gold ol' Standard USA system.
Mark my words this "celsius" thing is just a fad:P

Does the incubator have additional insulation, or is it all xPVC?

Once you work with Celsius enough, it's not a problem. I have an iPhone app that I like which will convert a ton of different measurements, Convertbot.
That said, Cole Parmer has other lab grade thermometers that I'm sure are available in Fahrenheit.

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Originally Posted by Adam Chandler

Guess that's a no:(
Someday soon the world will finally convert from that ridiculous "metric"
system to the gold ol' Standard USA system.
Mark my words this "celsius" thing is just a fad:P

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Originally Posted by LizardPants

Does the incubator have additional insulation, or is it all xPVC?

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Sorry I missed this but to answer your question it's all XPVC and holds temps perfectly for me.

That incubator looks really nice and professional!