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For those that opt for the closet, what happens when temps spike, or do you live in a place where temps don't go into the 90s? Today in the NYC area, it's supposed to reach 90 and tomorrow 92. Does it stay cooler in the closet? My eggs are in a hovabator, btw.

Thanks!

I live in Tucson so it gets very hot. I have my house AC set at 78 and that works great for my snake eggs. On the whole, a dark closet probably stays a fairly consistent temp compared to the left of the house.

I live in south Texas, and it's plenty hot here, but I have air conditioning in my house. The warmest my snake room gets to, in the middle of the day, is 80*F and cools down to around 72*F at night. I'm using a Hovabator for the first time, this year. In previous years, I kept my eggs in improvised incubators, consisting of a cabinet with a low wattage red bulb, which kept temps around 84 - 85*F. I have been testing temps in a thick-walled styro box, in a closet, for a couple of weeks, and it looks like the temp stays right at 76*F in the box. I have been thinking about keeping a clutch in the closet as an experiment, compared to incubating at 82*F in the Hovabator.

-Toby

If you ever have doubts just get a thermometer with a high/low read and it will tell you how hi the hottest temps were and how low the lowest were.. On average, I bet it stays in the mid to high 70's. I imagine a spike into the 90's for more than a few hours would be less than favorable though.
I have my eggs and snakes outside and it's damn hot during the heat of the day at over 85F. Lows are in high 70's. (central FL)
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If the outside temps get much above 90 then I'll open the closet door and put on the ceiling fan. I've got a few temps in the closet of 87 but normally it's in the 78 to 84 range.

I've always incubated eggs at room temperature, with no adverse effects. The only "exception" I've ever made to this in 27 years was once when a local pet store called me to take away some Ball Python eggs that were laid there. I incubated those in the rafters, the room's warmest spot.

Bart Bruno

Since a hovabator doesn't have a way to keep temps down, a temp spike in the room would still effect eggs in it.

I just keep mine in an empty boa cage alongside my leopard gecko eggs. The cage is located on top of a stack of boa cages in use and stays in the low 80's. I keep my room temps around 74-76 with an A/C so temp spikes are not a problem.

If you don't have an A/C you'll need to find another way to cool down the area that your incubator is in. Some have added cool packs to the incubator or around the incubator.

I live in Phoenix, where the temps are into the 100's now. My AC is set at 79.

I've got my eggs on vermiculite in Tupperware. The containers are on top of 2 bricks in a 20 gallon tall with water up to the top of the bricks. I put a 2-gallon fish tank heater in the water to keep the temps constant. The tank is covered with a screen top that has plastic wrap in it to keep the moisture in. The temps vary from 79.1 at night to 81.3 in the day.

The whole set up is in an un-carpeted closet.

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SNAKES
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1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
3.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnake
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0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.0.0 Ball Python
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
0.0.1 Lyre Snake
0.0.1 Glossy Snake

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0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
1.4.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
0.0.5 Sandfish

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0.0.1 White's Tree Frog
0.0.2 Gold Frogs
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