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pyromaniac
at Sat May 21 17:12:20 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pyromaniac ]
One of my big Styrofoam boxes with a lasagna pan full of perlite/vermiculite and the thermostat probe and thermometer probe inside near the eggs. Have used this design for fence lizard eggs several times successfully and this year am doing snake eggs. Lid of Styrofoam box is off to show eggs. It is heated with an 8 watt Zoomed heater. The lasagna pan sits on a bread cooing rack over the UTH. The other Styrofoam box is doing crickets. The cricket tubs are in bigger tubs also on racks over the UTH. The Styrofoam boxes are further wrapped in quilts to help maintain even temps. When it gets hot in the summer I put one of those frozen gel packs in to give the thermostat something to work against and keep the temps in the right range. I didn't have to buy anything, just used materials on hand. I have a Hovabator but it uses too much electricity. twice as much as my two Zoomed heaters put together. Also it was always getting too hot and hard to cool down. Am off grid so power consumption matters. If I should in the future wind up with lots of snake eggs from many snakes I have an old refrigerator I can convert.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
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- Incubator - steveoinlvnv, Fri May 20 21:39:58 2011
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RE: Incubator - pyromaniac, Sat May 21 17:12:20 2011