What incubators do you guys use for your ball pythons? Somewhere in the near future (soon as my pythons come of age and weight) I'll be breeding them. I know it's going to be a while from now until they breed but reason I'm asking now is because I'm currently breeding leopard geckos and I want to see what incubators you guys use or that you'd recommend, assuming incubators that work for ball pythons work just fine for leopard geckos (Or any just about other reptile for that matter).
I had a homemade/DIY incubator once but it never worked, it would never hatch any of the gecko's eggs. It was a fair sized styrofoam cooler with heat tape on the bottom, water bottles on the bottom for heat dispersion (I've been told recently now that it doesn't really make a difference, at least for BPs), a piece of plexiglass cut into the top, and a thermostat. The only fault I could've found in it was that the temperature wouldn't be precise. I would have it on 85 degrees and it would turn off once that temperature has been reached, but it won't turn back on until it reached 80 degrees. It would do this every couple hours, which is really the only thing I could've been that killed the eggs. I know it wasn't humidity or anything else. At this point, I don't know if I should make another using a more reliable thermostat or just buy a factory made one.
I've been looking at a couple brands. At my job they're selling reptibators, I'm not sure if this is a good one or not. I've also had many mixed reviews with reptipro 6000 and an Exo Terra incubator, some people saying its great and works fine and some people saying its a complete piece of sh*t that will never hatch eggs, so I don't know what to choose.
I forgot to mention it would be best if the incubator was small. I don't plan on breeding so many animals that I would need a large one, at least not yet.
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