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My friend has a mini-fridge that he is willing to give me. I am going to attempt to build my first incubator.
I saw one made out of an old fridge using heat tape.

Would you recommend 2 strips of 3" or one of 11"?

Any links would be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance.

-Me
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-Man fears the beast in the Wolf because he does not understand the beast within himself.

to fill an "Incubator Building"!!!!!

but sniff...sob.... I will not be.

EVILMORPHGOD

PS : It depends on your room temps and I would suggest making a false wall and using fans to blow air across the heat tape. They are incredibly good at holding in heat so a little bit of heat may go a long way. Always put your thermometer probe in the box with the eggs!!! Use fans they help mix the air and it provides even temps.

Kevin

>>My friend has a mini-fridge that he is willing to give me. I am going to attempt to build my first incubator.
>>I saw one made out of an old fridge using heat tape.
>>
>>Would you recommend 2 strips of 3" or one of 11"?
>>
>>Any links would be appreciated as well.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>-Me
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>>-Man fears the beast in the Wolf because he does not understand the beast within himself.
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www.newenglandreptile.com

get 2-3 heating elements from miller manufacturing I LOVE them,they are 42w each and $10 email me for pics

this is a website i found a long time ago hope it helps you

making a incubator out of a refridgerator

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kevin
36 pythons and boas and 4 lizards

I am on day 53 of my Albino x Normal clutch and I'm also using a minifridge. It works very well and Temps are extremely accurate. Good luck

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0.0.1 Green tree python (Aru LT)
0.0.1 Green tree python (Wamena LT)
0.1 Irian Jaya carpet python
1.0 Albino ball python
0.1 100% het Albino ball python
0.1 Normal ball python
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow boa
1.0 Leucistic Texas ratsnake
1.0 Albino cornsnake

Beleive it or not My incubator is simple as can be. It consist of a old ice cream bucket, 32qt rubbermaid container, under tank heat pad. I sold most of my snakes kept one gravid bred to a ghost and she laid 5 good eggs. Well I wasnt gonna go buy a incubator so I thought I let her do the incubating, well long and behold she abandons the eggs 2 wks into. So I put cypress in the ice cream container fill it with water till the cypress absorbs it and pop the eggs in on top. Close the lid and put the whole container on the heating pad which is placed inside the rubbermaid container and closed. Its day 48 and when candled you can actually see the baby moving inside. I guess it might be that Im lucky or incubating eggs really aint that hard lol. This probaly didnt help but hopefully it shows how crazy things can work out sometimes. Good luck

Heres a little something something I did for myself. I followed the designs by Damon Salcies of albinochondro.com

I tweaked a couple things to make it work better and whaaalla!

120 quart Igloo--no substrate method. I spent alot of money putting it together but you could spend tons less by substituting certain things like: rubbermaid instead of restaraunt pans, heat tape instead of heat rope (although I recomend the rope for its durability)

This is my very first clutch of ball python eggs and also the first test subject. Everything is working beautifully.

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