Just got eggs....help....

Hi everyone been gone for a while...need help .... just got eggs....My brand new incubator is not working.... im gonna let her be with her eggs to tomorrow so i can go buy a new incubator... will she be fine... the tub is reading 90 .....im gonna lower the heat a little because i dont want it to get to hot in there ....over night the heat might rise a little and i dont want to take a chance of frying the eggs...does that sound good....First clutch ever.... thought she did not take....shed was 34 days ago...Thanks for the help

If youll have a new incubator by tomorrow, she will be fine with the eggs until then. You dont really have a choice. Just make sure the tub is at least 80% humidity. Ideal incubation temp is 88.

Thanks... forgot about the humidity....just sprayed the tub and put a wet rag in the front of the tub.....

when i set up the egg tub ....i was wondering when u have the tub closed the heat is lower inside the tub itself.. then the incubator inside temp right....cause when i did a practice run my inside temp of the incubator was 89 and inside the egg tub was 80.....http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...6816591310.jpg....this is what i was gonna use...

Your fine with a temp of 86-90 with her incubating. Keep RH up and eggs will be fine till they hatched.

What Incubator you getting that will be there tomorrow setup and ready. Most incubators takes days to dial in even ones that worked great previous season.

Going looking tomorrow...worst case i figured a hoverbator...the one i bought is a exo tera and the motor blew 2 weeks on a practice run... what would u suggest....

The pic of your egg tub is empty..make sure when you do a test run that your egg tub is set up with the proper water/substrate ratio. Once you have your new incubator and its at the desired temp, put in your completed egg tub. The incubator is gonna heat up the water/substrate in the egg tub and thats how you reach the desired temp in the egg tub. It takes time. Dont put the eggs in the tub until the temp inside the incubator AND tub is correct.

Use the broke one still, add flexwatt to it or any UTH you have and add thermostat to it. Id never use hovabator, i would leave eggs with the female before putting them in a hovabator

So in the exo tera where would u put the heat tape floor or side wall

Down one of the sides or back

Personally,ive never heard anything good about exoterras. Before i lucked out and got a mini fridge inc, i was gonna use a hovabator and remove the built in wafer t-stat they come with and add my own. Another cheap(but iffy) suggestion, since time is short you could get a small cooler...add water and an aquarium heater and small shelf to place inside to hold egg tub. The aquarium heater will heat the water and inside of the tub creating an incubator.

To have mom incubate, even though shes doing the work...YOU have to make sure you provide her with the correct conditions and materials for a solid two months for her to properly incubate.

P.S.- These are just suggestions, im a first year breeder myself. Im just replating info ive come across here n there. Rich is MUCH more experienced.

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Personally,ive never heard anything good about exoterras. Before i lucked out and got a mini fridge inc, i was gonna use a hovabator and remove the built in wafer t-stat they come with and add my own. Another cheap(but iffy) suggestion, since time is short you could get a small cooler...add water and an aquarium heater and small shelf to place inside to hold egg tub. The aquarium heater will heat the water and inside of the tub creating an incubator.

To have mom incubate, even though shes doing the work...YOU have to make sure you provide her with the correct conditions and materials for a solid two months for her to properly incubate.

P.S.- These are just suggestions, im a first year breeder myself. Im just replating info ive come across here n there. Rich is MUCH more experienced.

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Hes no longer using the Exoterra heating setup just the unit. He would be supplying his own heat and thermostat, which will work better than what was there originally that broke.

gonna put down the side.. how do i run the cord out of the incubator...

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gonna put down the side.. how do i run the cord out of the incubator...

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Drill a hole just big enough toget cord out, then Seal it with Tape

the door shuts with the cord coming out by the door handle..

as long as its closed well so no air can come in affecting temps your fine. Give it few hours to settle in temps and your fine


Since this is only one clutch and small incubator dont worry about using a fan

Fish heaters are cheap, and have temp dials that are pretty precise, since we need our water to be specific..

Thanks Rich i was just gonna ask about the fan....i ripped out the one that was there....

Cant get the heat up ...........the thermostat is set at 100 and the temp is 80...I have a big apple herpstat and the high temp on it is 110....dont want to max it out....

What size heat are you using, Might not have enough

3 inch...didnt have anything else...

Will with using 3" need more to wrap the sides and bottom. Then you will be set

Just bought a reptibator so i can use for now....will have the mini fridge ready in about 2 weeks....then i will switch them over.....