Help with eggs

[Pythonfriend]

i think its dropping down from above.

BTW, condensation is only sometimes caused by temperature variability, generally its caused by a temperature gradient. as in: it evaporates where its warm and condenstaes where its cold. and when the humidity is very high, even a slight gradient will cause the effect. so when you heat from below and the top is just 1 degree cooler, you get the drops.

if im right and its dropping down, then water bottles or a better thermostat wont necessarily help. large temperature swings are not good, and water bottles help with that, and a good thermstat wont allow large temperature swings. if the incubator temperatures swing around like crazy, whenever the egg box is warmer than the rest of the incubator, you get some condensation.

you can try to get rid of the temperature gradient. you could try moving the heat source all the way to the top, and then use little fans to evenly distribute it. basically, figure out what the problem with the incubator is, why there is a gradient, and fix it.

a different idea would be to keep the drops from reaching the eggs. like, tilt the egg box by 15 degrees, so that the drops run off sideways instead of falling on the eggs. or make it so that the lid of the egg box is tilted.

but that all assumes that the pictures are not fooling me, and that there is water dripping down.

"There have been some temp fluctuation with about 4 degrees, and we have been keeping the incubator set at 86 degrees as in the egg box temps are 89-91."

thats enough of a temperature gradient for condensation. 90 inside the egg box, 86 around the egg box, thats only possible when the incubator recently used to be at 90 degrees and just dropped down to 86. or when you use two different imprecise thermometers to make these measurements. if the temperature is generally constant, you get thermodynamic equilibrium, and you get the same temperatures everywhere in the incubator.