Incubators????

[Tori Witschger]

So with advice from here it looks like my lil girl maybe gravid so I guess now comes the fun part finding an incubator or letting her take care of her own eggs..What are thoughts on this if incubator is better is there a particular brand especially for such a small scale breeding with just one clutch or such I just let her be and take care of her own eggs since it is just one clutch it isn't worth purchasing an incubator. I want to try and do this right the first time

[Homegrownscales]

Make one. You'll save money and have the back up option if you decide to let her brood the eggs. A cooler and a bit of heat tape does the trick.


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[Tori Witschger]

I was told about one called hovabator but there are like 5 different styles and the only one I know for sure not to get.. would be the one that auto turns the eggs past that little clueless.. I saw someone on ksl that hand building incubators out of small mini fridges but those are kinda expensive :S

[snakesRkewl]

Free non working mini fridge off of craigslist = 0$
2 feet of 11x12 flexwatt = under$8
water bottles = .99 1 liter X 10 = $10
thermostat = $108 for a herpstat or play watch the incubator go up and down in temperature and use a cheap on/off thermostat(no fun)
total about $125 to $150

You won't need a fan if your only using one shelf

Even if I was inclined to use a hovabotor I'd still want to use a proportional thermostat

[Adam Chandler]

I'd recommend making your own incubator. I made mine out of a broken Red Bull fridge

You can see how I converted it here:http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ull-Incubator!