incubation temperature question

incubating my first clutch...i read somewhere that temps will naturally go up as the babies develop and begin producing their own heat...do i need to drop temps accordingly? for example, if i'm on day 50 and have been incubating at 90F, but find temps around 92 (due to development), should i turn the heat down to make up for the heat put off by the babies? or should i just leave temps alone?

You can if you want. My incubator is an upright freezer and I run my temp at 90-90.5 all the way up until I remove them from the incubator after they have came out of the egg

I personally do not touch the temp at all. I set my Helix at 88 degrees in a small refrigerator style incubator. If there shall be an increase in temp due to the eggs getting close, the Helix will regulate the temp for me.

I would leave the temps alone....At 90 degrees they will probably start pipping in a few more days.

Shouldnt the thermostat account for raising temps and just remain the same by not turning on the heat source?

i dont touch mine:colbert:
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Originally Posted by domepiece

shouldnt the thermostat account for raising temps and just remain the same by not turning on the heat source?

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

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Wouldn't that depend on your setup?

If your tubs have no holes and the thermostat probe is not in the tub the temp in the tubs would start to increase as the eggs get closer to hatching. I am sure the temp inside the incubator would start to increase as well due to the tub temp rising but not as much as inside the tub.

Now if the tubs have holes then yes I agree that the thermostat would regulate and not turn on since the hotter air is moving out of the tub into the incubator.

Not the expert just asking

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Originally Posted by joebad976

Wouldn't that depend on your setup?

If your tubs have no holes and the thermostat probe is not in the tub the temp in the tubs would start to increase as the eggs get closer to hatching. I am sure the temp inside the incubator would start to increase as well due to the tub temp rising but not as much as inside the tub.

Now if the tubs have holes then yes I agree that the thermostat would regulate and not turn on since the hotter air is moving out of the tub into the incubator.

Not the expert just asking

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I dont think you would want your probe in the tub anyway. I'm no expert by any means but how can the close to hatching eggs produce heat since snakes are cold blooded and dont produce an internal body heat. I can see there being more condensation inside the egg box due to perspiration but not actually enough heating up to raise temps significantly.

Dilemmas occur when you place the thermostat prob in with the eggs.

I myself would never place a thermostat probe in a tub with eggs, it just doesn't make any sense to do so.
If the thermostat probe is where it is supposed to be then the thermostat will do its job keeping the same temperature, and not fluctuate just because one egg tub is close to pipping and throwing off a little more heat.

The temps in that particular tub might increas a little but the incs temperature would not, meaning all of the other tubs with eggs in them would continue to stay at the desired temperature.

I keep mine at 89 and just leave it.

welp i used an exoterra incubator ....no holes in egg box, with a thermometer probe in egg box. thermostat was set at 94 because there was a constant 4ish degree difference from the egg box and what the incubator displayed.

But two nights ago, i heard a beep beep beep beep and watched as the temp display on the incubator rose to 140 F and the down temp button suddenly stopped working. I unplugged, replugged, turned it on "quiet mode"....turned it back on, etc. etc. and it would work for a few minutes and then beep up to 140 and stick there. Ended up turning it on and off by hand and monitoring thermometer while desperately trying to rig something up to keep the eggs in overnight....no such luck, ended up taking back to the guy who was incubating them for me while i waited for my be-all end-all exoterra incubator that broke after a week.

not feeling real optimistic about incubators.

You have to build your own it is very easy...A friend of mine had one of those exoterra's and it killed all of his bearded dragons clutches due to the same problem but he was not home to catch it. Not a very good product IMO

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Originally Posted by joebad976

You have to build your own it is very easy...A friend of mine had one of those exoterra's and it killed all of his bearded dragons clutches due to the same problem but he was not home to catch it. Not a very good product IMO

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thats what im starting to begrudgingly realize after buying a hovabator and an exoterra

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Originally Posted by Domepiece

snakes are cold blooded

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One of the biggest science myths that we learned in elementary school is that we can categorize all reptiles as "cold blooded", in the sense that they have ZERO biological ability to affect their own body temperature.

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Originally Posted by hypersomniacjoo

welp i used an exoterra incubator ....no holes in egg box, with a thermometer probe in egg box. thermostat was set at 94 because there was a constant 4ish degree difference from the egg box and what the incubator displayed.

But two nights ago, i heard a beep beep beep beep and watched as the temp display on the incubator rose to 140 F and the down temp button suddenly stopped working. I unplugged, replugged, turned it on "quiet mode"....turned it back on, etc. etc. and it would work for a few minutes and then beep up to 140 and stick there. Ended up turning it on and off by hand and monitoring thermometer while desperately trying to rig something up to keep the eggs in overnight....no such luck, ended up taking back to the guy who was incubating them for me while i waited for my be-all end-all exoterra incubator that broke after a week.

not feeling real optimistic about incubators.

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Damn that really sucks. I also use an old fridge converted.

Thank you search function. My probe in my incubator is not in the egg tub and is set for 89. The temps in one tub are up to 92, at 40 days. It seems that I should not adjust my thermostat, correct? Just leave it set for 89 and let the eggs do their thing?

Three things I want to address...

Thermostats adjust to temperature changes.

I put my probe in an egg tub. I've done it the other way too, doesn't make a difference.

And no one should use a hovabator or anything cheap like that ever. I try warning people, tell them to build their own but what do I know.

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