So you can understand what I am going to explain, here's a little background for this story: I live in Puerto Rico, for those of you that don't know, that's on the Caribbean. The average temperature on the island is between 87-90, so trying to breed female Leos is not that easy. Every time I see someone selling a island born Leo, it's a male, so I wanted to produce my own females.
Last week, one of my two females delivered her first two eggs, 15 days after having a male introduced to her.
Because I wanted to breed females, I built my own incubator, following some ideas I found on the web on how to create an aquarium-based incubator. The problem is that I need to lower the temps, not rise them. So here is what I did:
I filled a 10 gallon aquarium with at least 3 inches of water. I placed the eggs on moist sphagnum moss inside a plastic container. I sealed the container with a kitchen plastic wrapper. I then "drown" the plastic container almost completely, leaving the top part outside the water. Then I placed a sand filled plastic container in top of it to keep it submerged under water. On the aquarium top I placed a personal fan I bought at Wal-mart to lower the temperature, the thing is it lowers too much. Because of this, I placed an aquarium water heater with a thermostat to heat the water up to 82 degrees. Between the fan lowering the water temperature and the heater, it creates a balance that keeps the eggs at an ideal 80-82 degrees for breeding females.
I hope this helps anyone that has to deal with the same high temps at their homes. Let me know what you think, about the eggs and the incubator.
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0.0.1 Ball Python (Grishnakh)
1.2.0 Leopard Geckos (Sauron, Ogiliath, Gondorian)
0.1.0 Tokay Gecko (Isil)
0.2.0 Dogs (Sabrina, Aika)
0.1.0 Cat (Mika)
0.1.0 Wife (Omaira)
It is used like Air Conditioning, works really well in dry climates (obviously) because the air picks up more moisture and cools down.