Anyone ever made an incubator?

[Drewby07]

So I've got a gravid ball python...and I'm planning on at LEAST 5 clutches this spring.....so I need a new incubator. I was thinking of taking an old wooden cabinet and lining it with styrofoam insulation...and adding heating elements, etc....what do you guys think? Anyone done this?

 

[Chip]

I use a closet with a radiator heater. Nothing fancy but works on everything I produce. I keep a little Hovabator on the side to make geckos girls, but everything else goes in the closet!

 

[Drewby07]

Hmmm....I actually have a relatively unused closet in the snake room....how do you handle the humidity?

 

[Chip]

I don't! Each individual tub is kept as humid or dry as that species likes. I keep ball eggs quite dry.

 

[Drewby07]

Ok...gotcha...so do you incubate in sealed containers then?

 

[Blue Apple Herps]

I keep ball eggs quite dry.

Really?? Myself and most keep theirs near 100% humidity...

 

[Chip]

I've only lost good eggs to moisture. Perhaps I should've said "quite dry for ball eggs," but I keep 'em drier than colubrids, almost as dry as woma eggs.

 

[Drewby07]

So....heated closet and sealed containers to keep up the humidity?

 

[Rick3521]

incubator

heres an incubator that i built and been using for about 3 years now ive had no problems with it and perfect hatch rates .... i use on colubrid eggs and i can hold 12 cluthes at a time ...