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Jeff Favelle
at Mon Jun 9 00:35:15 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Favelle ]
1) The substrate doesn't even need to be there. It could be nothing, it could be water, it could be paper towel, it could be perlite, vermiculite etc etc etc.
I use wet vermiculite because it acts as a good heat sink to further reduce temperature fluctuations. But you don't need to for the "no substrate" method to work.
2) The incubator is just a big plastic-lined insulated box. The water sits in this box, with the small Rubbermaids that house the eggs in this box, sitting on bricks above the water. (Just like all the 90's herp books say to do. This style of incubator is older than dirt).
3) No I use a submersible fish aquarium heater. They have built-in thermostats and I just calibrate the incubator (with an empty Rubbermaid inside) a couple weeks before the first clutch, usually around April.
4) No need to circulate the air. The water in the incubator heats up evenly with the fish heater. Water is an EXCELLENT conductor of heat. Then, this heat and humidity fill the airspace and that's your incubator. Circulating air kills eggs everytime. No joke.
5) This particular incubator can house 18 Ball Python clutches and 12 Carpet Python clutches.
Hope it helps Ben!! Post pics if you build one!
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Answers (to the best of my ability)... - Jeff Favelle, Mon Jun 9 00:35:15 2003