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I've read numerous web articles on the desired temps for incubating BP eggs. Here is my situation and I would appreciate any insight as to if it's right/wrong.

I turned a college frig into a incubator and used a helix to measre inside temps. I got my first clutch of eggs today (7) and I have them setup on vermiculite and internal incubation temps of 88.

Now my question is should the inside of the incubator be 88 and the temps of the eggs less( tonight thy actually measured 85/86 (eggs) or should i have the temp probe of the helix in the box with my eggs and that temp set to 88? I have not done this because I was afraid the interior space of the incubator would be cooking 90-95% or more.

Thoughts?

Russ

88 is fine for incubating the eggs, if your overall temps are 88, the inside of your egg box should also be 88, I suspect you are not getting the proper ventilation throughout the unit, small computer fans usualy do the job. I would leave the probe in the middle of the unit and not in the inbubating egg box. No matter what, you still have slightly lower temps at the bottom and slithly higher temps at the top.

Good luck

How's it going Russ? Assuming you're running a fan...I hang the probe 6-8 inches in front of the fan and usually get pretty even temps. throughout.
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Dale....dgoins222@yahoo.com
www.LibertyReptiles.com

Hey Dale,
It's going good. Yep I got a pc fan in there running non-stop. The overall gradient is hanging about 88 but when I open the egg box and measure the gg temps it is about 1-2 degrees lower. I'm thinking the egg box will soon adjust to the inner air temps and all will be the same.
Russ