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How to Make a Simple Reptile Incubator

thats similar to mine only my heat mats on the bottom and i have doweling? pushed throw to allow air flow and so the boxes of eggs dont sit on it
 
Drizzt80 said:
That's what I moved to last year, and it worked great last year. I still had some mold/fungus, but I don't think it was nearly as bad as when I used the wetter method previous years.

I think the cooler (100 Qt.??) was on sale for $69.99 last year (reg. $99?). Simple strip of 4" flexwatt (I had a UTH on the bottom last year) keeps the temps within a degree from top to bottom . . . there's a computer fan to circulate the air that you can't see in the pic.

D80
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Do you put your thermostat probe in with one of the clutches or inside the cooler itself?
 
dwyn127 said:
Do you put your thermostat probe in with one of the clutches or inside the cooler itself?
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Hey Danny, the thermostat probe is inside the incubator proper, the temperature probes go into the egg boxes, and one outside the egg boxes. One temp probe goes in a bottom box, one goes in a top box, and the probe is in the middle along with a third temp probe. I have about a 1 degree difference between the top and bottom even though there's a fan circulating the air. :shrugs: Heat rises.

D80
 
Wow by blizzard corn is about to lay eggs and I have this exact set up ready before hand. I was really worried about the excess condensation on top but you gave a very nice bit of advice in leaving the lid tilted slightly. Thank you very much for shring this !!!
 
I did almost exactly this for my eggs last year and it works perfectly. Never had an issue with humidity or temps and only had to add water to the tank once!
 
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