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is there an alternative to the hoobervator?

a homemade version that is easy, like would moist vermiculite a glass tank and light that brings the egg temp to like 82 do the same?

curious..........

thanks

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Life is what happens when you are making other plans.......

You'd need some type of thermostat. As far as home made. You can take an old cooler put in a aquarium heater, some water and a couple bricks to support a shelf.

what would be the optimum humidity?

curious?
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Life is what happens when you are making other plans.......

what i am useing is a 10 gal tank 2 bricks a plastic shoe box and an aquarium heater, use a digitel temp gun or probe to set your temps in the egg container keep the water level touching the container, mark a min and max water level on the tank, to much water and the container floats around to little your temps change, then cover the screen top mostly with ducktape and watch the eggs if the humidity is to high they will swell and get drops of waterr on them to little and the eggs will dimple, put the tank somewhere the air temp dont change much and you temp should stay pretty stable,
so far this seems to be working for me and my eggs are developing good but this is my first time also
good luck
Tony

hovabators aren't that expensive...and do a fine job. they are probably better at keeping temperature and humidity better than if you made one out of an aquarium.

i would think that by the time you make a homemade version, you'd be spending more money. well, if you are one of those people that like to have nice things, you could probably make a much nicer looking incubator that the hova.

if you have more than one female dragon laying eggs at a time you are going to want more space than a single hovabator has. by the time a dragon lays the second clutch, the first clutch will not have hatched yet.
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a free range dragon is a happy dragon

nothing is wrong with a hobabator, was curious

didnt plan on having fertile eggs, my female broke into my males house and they mated......

one clutch is with a friend with an hobervator..if another clutch happens because they retain sperm just thought i would find out if there was an alternative with stuff i might have around the house, i happen to have most of the items mentioned already because i have 8 reptiles and have had many critters over the years im also a salt water aquarist and a fresh water aquarist.......

i always figured there were plenty of critters in the world and didnt plan on adding to it, but delilah had other plans a few weeks ago..LOL
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Life is what happens when you are making other plans.......

lol. sometimes it just happens. Like the signature someone has on here says, life is what happens when you're making other plans. hehehe I hope everything goes well with them and I am interested in how it turns out!