Incubators - Post pics of yours!!!

[sean0411]

I would assume heat tape, you cant actually see it, the cord comes out the back and plugs into the thermostat.

i see.....well whats your opinion of the incubator. does it have good temperature stability? i was thinking of trying one of these or getting one from pytonwallace. thanks in advance, sean.

[FIREball]

I havent used it yet but everyone else seems to like it. I dont think you can go wrong with either one of the choices.

[alohareptiles]

What is the range of the DIY incubators? Assuming you have a fridge or can get one...

[starmom]

Chase,

How do you fill in with the grooves? Do you simply just cake the silicone in the grooves? Or do you do something different?

Thanks!

Mine's just like this and I just filled in the grooves with silicone. We have a couple feet of 11" flex at the bottom controlled by a Helix. There's a light grate on top of the flex, on little feet things, and then bottles of water for the heat sink and then another light grate and then 5 egg boxes. Works well and keeps a steady 89-90F temp for a small monetary investment (the neighbor's cooler!)

[RWD]

You put the probe for the thermostat in the egg box instead of on top of the heat tape like on racks to get a more accurate reading. Please correct me if i am wrong. I will be building an incubator out of a mini fridge in the next year or so. Thanks for all the help

[Drew87]

This is mine im still working on it, replacing the flexxwatt ext. Everyones looks great. Wish you all the best of luck

[PythonChick]

Here are ours, newly constructed and about to be tested!!

[Boanerges]

Mine's just like this and I just filled in the grooves with silicone. We have a couple feet of 11" flex at the bottom controlled by a Helix. There's a light grate on top of the flex, on little feet things, and then bottles of water for the heat sink and then another light grate and then 5 egg boxes. Works well and keeps a steady 89-90F temp for a small monetary investment (the neighbor's cooler!)

Where do you put the probe for the thermostat? Do you use a fan and if no how come? Thank you

[shadi11]

I would assume heat tape, you cant actually see it, the cord comes out the back and plugs into the thermostat.

You are correct heat tape is used to heat NS incubators. He will also sell the theromostat with it but of course its additional charge

[Hyper Joe]

I made an incubator out of an igloo. 3 years in a row and is still gives me good temps and successful hatchling BPs.

I use a Zoomed Heat Cable and an Alife thermostat with one 7" computer fan.
I had a humidity and temp gauge inside as well as outside displayed. It can hold up to 6 15 qt sterilite 1754s. But I normally have one filled with water to stabalize the temps.

Once I got the temps to hit 89-90 it stayed no lower than this. It did get higher due to the temps in my room increased too much. Since the heat in the incubator can only turn off most incubators will do this if the room temps get too hot. This is because there is no cooling system in the majority of the incubators even my homemade one. But the insulation from this igloo was great. That is one reason I didn't make a window in the lid. Which may compromise the igloo's insulation unless you use dual pane.

The pics are not what it looks like now. I made it look neater. Tightened loose wires, installed a small inside light, repositioned and changed the fan and also have the probe hanging in the middle of the incubator.