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    Re: Confusion on incubators.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant View Post
    Making your own incubator is incredibly easy:

    1. buy a styrofoam cooler, a foot or so of heat tape from reptile basics (they will wire it for you), some aluminum foil tape, and a thermostat (preferably something like the herpstat intro +)
    2. Using the foil tape, tape the heat tape into the cooler
    3. Pass the heat tape cord out of the cooler and plug it into the thermostat
    4. Place the thermostat's probe inside the cooler and set the thermostat to the desired incubation temperature.
    5. Add eggs

    If I had to chose between the 2 you listed I would go with the hovabator, but personally I wouldn't trust either of them.
    This ^^^ A cooler type of incubator is the way to go for a few clutches per year...

    Incubating bp eggs is a very simple process...don't make it any harder than it should be. All you need are heat (and a way to control it) and humidity. Heat tape and a thermostat takes care of one, substrate the other. A cooler is ideal for this...

    Temp controls



    Heat tape...


    Routing the wires...



    And eventually you get this...

    Last edited by sho220; 12-09-2013 at 08:05 PM.
    Lucifer Sam, Siam cat...
    Always sitting by your side,
    Always by your side...
    That cat's something I can't explain...

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