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Ok, so later on this season it is quite possible I'll have 2 clutches and the year after than I should have around 5-6 clutches. I need to make an incubator that is good quality but not super expensive like the industrial grade ones. I've heard of gutting a mini-fridge and putting a strip of heat tape with computer fans on the top and bottom run with a helix. Is this a perfectly good method because if it is I'll just find a broken mini-fridge on Craigslist and get some heat tape from my friend. I've already got the helix so this may be relatively inexpensive for me but I just wanted to get some opinions. Thanks a bunch.

I used a styrofoam meat cooler and a piece of heat tape. Hatched out two clutches of pastels and normals.
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Hi,

Hey look up damon Salseies website. Albinochondro or something of the sort. REALLY great design and will handle 3-6 clutches. Very clean and does not weigh 300 lbs.

Lee

you could also us a good camping cooler also if you awant, like those 5 day coolers, and use it for hatching when theres eggs and bar bq's, camping, or what ever the rest of the year.

matt

HI Matt,

The Salseies incubator is a truck size camping cooler. BIG sucker!! I wanna say 48L x 16w x 16h. GUESStimate on size. You can buy them at walmart.

When My incubator was destroyed in the flood I still had 2 clutches remaining. I took my 50qt rubbermaid 5 day cooler and it worked GREAT!!!! It saved a lot of eggs I would have lost.

Fortunately, I only had 2 clutches remaining to incubate. THAT is all the 50qt could handle. WOULD however make a great leopard gecko incubator.

Lee