hmm that could be it, the hovabator was given to us by somebody who used to breed bearded dragons.

what i've done is cover up the air holes i made, took out about half the vermiculite, and added dry vermiculite without adding any more water. it does still clump together loosely, so i'm thinking maybe the vermiculite i have is a little bit wetter than usual. i also closed the window in the room we are incubating in.

if it continues to be a problem i may have to move them to a different container.

we do have a small cooler we could use, but the problem with that is we only have enough flexwatt to cover the bottom of it, and the cooler is not big enough for all 5 eggs to go in one container. we would have to stack 2 glad containers vertically with the flexwatt on the bottom. would that pose any problems? would the bottom container get too warm, or would enough heat rise to the to container to even it out?