Quote Originally Posted by DerekG4 View Post
What incubators do you guys use for your ball pythons? Somewhere in the near future (soon as my pythons come of age and weight) I'll be breeding them. I know it's going to be a while from now until they breed but reason I'm asking now is because I'm currently breeding leopard geckos and I want to see what incubators you guys use or that you'd recommend, assuming incubators that work for ball pythons work just fine for leopard geckos (Or any just about other reptile for that matter).

I had a homemade/DIY incubator once but it never worked, it would never hatch any of the gecko's eggs. It was a fair sized styrofoam cooler with heat tape on the bottom, water bottles on the bottom for heat dispersion (I've been told recently now that it doesn't really make a difference, at least for BPs), a piece of plexiglass cut into the top, and a thermostat. The only fault I could've found in it was that the temperature wouldn't be precise. I would have it on 85 degrees and it would turn off once that temperature has been reached, but it won't turn back on until it reached 80 degrees. It would do this every couple hours, which is really the only thing I could've been that killed the eggs. I know it wasn't humidity or anything else. At this point, I don't know if I should make another using a more reliable thermostat or just buy a factory made one.
I think most of the people on here are gonna recommend building your own. If you don't have the time or just don't wanna build one, hotbox incubators by cserpents are pretty top notch, I use hotbox and have no complaints. If your trying to save money I would also definitely recommend building your own but this time out of a broken wine cooler or broken fridge instead of the styrofoam cooler. There's plenty of tutorials on doing so and it would save you quite a bit of money.