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Do most of you who use hova's trust the built in thermostat or do you use another to control the heat?

Thanks for your help
Bob

Take off the wafer and the metal bar to adjust it. Let it run wide open with a herpstat or helix controlling it.

I use up to 4 of them at a time, 2 different models, and I use the built in thermostats........for 17 years?......

..........I check them regularly, they should be in a room that is humid and doesn't vary temos alot...my basement ones do better than the ones upstairs , sun hits that room all day...
and I used to use 3 thermometers in them each....thermometers vary alot...(one said 86 one 89 and one 92 ,in the one bator...yet it was 89....)now I just point and click temps to check them every couple days....

.......and I may have $$$$$$$ in each one......

.......set it up early.....when you have the eggs...it's too late to do it correctly.....you hurry and rush and screw up....ask me...I wait too much....LOL
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..J Yohe ....

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Thanks for your input, I figured I would get answers supporting both sides

......DO NOT use the bottom that came with it, too short

.....I DO NOT use containers for the eggs...they are IN the vermiculite ,3 inches thick, at bottom of dofferent styrofoam box that is used for bottom....(yes lid better fit tight,or set tightly on the top...)....

90 degrees

60 days

humid

don't dump water ON eggs

don't bother them alot

set up in cooler room with little traffic as possible

....IF you use a seperate thermostat???....they may have answered this, I didn't read the posts....do you turn incubator to full on power and let the thermostat turn it off and on as needed? or set the thermostat IN the Hova-bator to 90 then set the second to 90 also?....do you use both ? ....know what I mean.......I would think you have to turn Hova to full then use other thermostat to turn it off.....???...

if noone mentioned this ask again..........never tried it
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..J Yohe ....

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when i started i had 3 or 4 of them and i think 2 little giants i have hatched ball pythons,beareded dragons,both ausi and asain water dragons,veild cham,frilled dragon and corn snake eggs with them i never had a problem with them however i have heard of the therostat on them getting stuck so people recomend hooking it up to another one. i finaly built a fridge incubator but i still use one hovabator when needed with no extra therostat
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reed&Sunny at www.ReedsDragons.com & www.KillerEnclosures.com

>>Do most of you who use hova's trust the built in thermostat or do you use another to control the heat?
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>>Thanks for your help
>>Bob

I used them for years without incident. But I did eventually go to using expensive $150 thermostats which have failed on me on a few occasions. That being said, my incubators are still setup using other thermostats.
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Jay A. Martin
Jay Martin Reptiles