Incubater failed

[Emil]

Hi all

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

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

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,

[WingedWolfPsion]

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.

[Jason Bowden]

I'd say the eggs could be fine.

[mechnut450]

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.)

[Emil]

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

[CoolioTiffany]

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.

[rabernet]

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.

[moravaguy]

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

[Emil]

Now i´m getting optimistic again

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

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

[Caz]

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