making a incubator

Hey I am going to be making an incubator and was wondering if you guys had any good ideas. I was thinking of taking an old fridge and gutting it and turning it into an incubator but i'm still trying to work out the details. so any thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBggJfz-bFs&feature=related this should be what your looking for....at least I think so ^.=.^

my recipe for making an incubator:

Get a styrofoam tub like you use to put fish in at your local store.

Put a UTH viv heater in the bottom, and hook it up to a thermostat.

lay 4 water bottles w/ water in them on top of that.

Put a lid to a tupperware tub (you can trim this up its just so the container won't roll around)

Put your container in with 2 water bottles on each side.

Put a thermometer in the egg container.

air-tight seal the lid.

Put the lid on.



I have pics somewhere but I cant seem to find them right now. Oh well :shrugs:

hezikiawilson said:

Hey I am going to be making an incubator and was wondering if you guys had any good ideas. I was thinking of taking an old fridge and gutting it and turning it into an incubator but i'm still trying to work out the details. so any thoughts?

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That's what I did and it's working great. I use a single 11" piece of flexwatt and a thermostat. I've also got an aquarium hood fan to circulate the heat; it keeps it within 2 degrees from top to bottom.

I found the pics!! This goes in the order of the steps.

nice incubators I was going to make an incubator this season but I was able to make it without upgrading but I really like the fridge idea. the fan is a good idea and the water bottles help keep temp so thanks

Ill probabley be doing the fridge idea as its more permanent, but the ice cooler is a good one too.

I converted a small upright freezer, much easier to work with, and way lighter. I also went with a reservoir with submersible aquarium heaters instead of flexwatt for humidity. It was really simple and works great.