Noticing a trend here.................

[Badgemash]

however I think its a waste of money to buy one when you can build one for less than $20 plus the cost of a t-stat. Then the stat can be repurposed

I'm not disagreeing with you (although I think I might be missing your point about the t-stat, mine unplugs just fine from my ready-made incubator?), but I do not trust my DIY skills, so I read all the threads I could find about which incubators people liked or would get if they could (which leads into a whole separate rant about people not using the search function) and just bought the one that kept coming up consistently (Natures Spirit). It wasn't about the cost for me, the decrease in anxiety in my little OCD brain that came with buying a ready-made product that I knew had the respect of this community was worth every penny.

an army of samurai rats waiting to be deployed into various enclosures so they can slaughter hapless pythons or something.

Oh heaven forbid anyone finds out I feed one of mine live ASFs, I guess I'm just evil.

If thats really why you're here then go to your local YMCA and challenge the seniors to a game of jai alai!

The very naughty part of me kind of wants to see what would happen, age and trechery beats youth and skill after all...

And for my separate rant, use the search function people! Odds are pretty good that someone else has had the same question, and it has already been answered throughly, more than once. If you still need clarification afterward, THAT is the time to start a new thread, with specific details ("I saw in the past that thing A happened, and it means thing B and C, how does that apply to D?"). Ok, am off my soapbox, especially since I know I'm addressing the choir anyway .