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I would like to know if anyone has instructions on making an incubator out of a cooler, small fridge or wine cooler. What are the pros and cons of all and which do you recommend. I have three clucthes on the way and im stumpedon which incubator to use.
thanks
Stevebp

>>I would like to know if anyone has instructions on making an incubator out of a cooler, small fridge or wine cooler. What are the pros and cons of all and which do you recommend. I have three clucthes on the way and im stumpedon which incubator to use.
>>thanks
>>Stevebp

well these are my 2 home made incubators. one is a table top pop fridge the other is a pop fridge to but bigger. i see everyone using flex watt but i used light fictures at the bottom i just went to homedepot and got one of the light fictures that are for security out side then an exteniton cord wired it up (ran the cords threw the back) got a small computer fan and a power converter and just hung it to circulate the air i used the helix as the temp control i started with the big one and it was was to big for the balls (in o7 i only had 32 eggs all year and in 08 i only had 3 eggs) anyway i made another one in 08 the smaller one for the balls and im now using the bigger one for my frilled dragons,bearded,green and brown water dragons and all the other lizards i do i also use to use the hovabator and little giant they worked but had to be in a room that stayed close to the same temp and it did not hold as many eggs i thought of using a old house fridge but i like the idea of being able to see in however its alot more exspensive to use this fridge lol i can get a house fridge for free but the pop fridged cost me almost $300 for the one

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Have you checked out the complete Chondro book? It has an awesome set up for a cooler incubator. Anyway,I made mine out of an old clean fridge. Heres a pic.