Quote Originally Posted by Ladybugzcrunch View Post
You should chill out. Not every project requires perfection on the first go! and who are you to say I should have a hamster instead of a snake? I used the sand to prevent splashing. light diffuser is to keep the eggs off of the wet sand. I have a herpstat on my racks just do not want to buy another one yet for several reasons. BTW herpstats fail as well. One of mine did and burnt several of may snakes. Now I have a back up for the herpstat cause not everything is perfect.
Not every project requires perfection on the first go!

really! let me tell you about my first clutch

I had perfect temps the whole way threw incubation, tested my incubator for weeks until I had my incubator zero in to where I wanted it. before the eggs came.
used a 6 qt tub with perlite and had it very wet also using a light grid. use a lid on top with no holes.
even with this setup I still had humidity problems. at the end of incubation, the top of the eggs touch the bottom of the eggs. but they all were still alive. bad thing is some had one eye some had no eyes and none of them would eat on their own. I watch each one die but I wouldn't give up on them. what fix my humidity problem? a piece of glad press n seal. if I knew a little bit more this might of been prevented.

temp spikes durning incubation can also cause problems. you don't want to be asking how to put down a hatchling cause it's serverly kinked but it's still breathing. it sucks!
this can happen even under perfect conditions, so why use garbage equipment and up the odds?

I apologize for the hamster remark, it was a bad way of trying to get a point across.

let me try and reword it, I've been doing this for awhile and this isn't meant to be smart." Not every project requires perfection on the first go!" why not try for perfection, if it's a money thing why not just wait until it can be done right?

I would also like to hear your input on the failure of the herpstat. never had a herpstat fail, but I had a helix max out on a back heated rack. the snakes wasn't burn from it.