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Of incubator do yall use I am breeding pueblan milk snakes and wondering what type do yall use and could yall post pics please?

Have a good one!

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Doug L

plastic shoebox, vermiculite, on the shelf over the sink in the snake room...around 82 or so degrees....

anywhere 82 is fine, you don't NEED and incubator....you CAN use them....but anything and anywhere you can stay at 82 is fine....

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Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie

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Ok but I would have to use a incubator cause our house dosent stay hot anof and I have a snake room/bed room lol cause my mom said I can't have a room just for my snakes.

I was thinking a hova bator and I was gonna use a helix to controll the heat would that work?

I use hova bator incubators and they have a built in heat control, I don't think you need a helix with it. Save yourself $130.

Dave
DNS Reptiles

If you cannot find warm enough temps throughout your house then check the temperature on top of your water heater. Mine stays at 82 degrees on the button through the egg laying months and never changes. Place a barrier (top from plastic container) between your egg container and the water heater and you are good to go. I have a hova-bator but have not tried it yet. Maybe this year for the hell of it.

Quote : " Ok but I would have to use a incubator cause our house doesn't stay hot "
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Define hot? 70 degrees will work! Take a thermometer and measure the temp. in the kitchen above the fridge or up on the cabinets.I bet its at least 75 .Tell your mom I said its ok

Shoe box / peat moss /may and june room temps works for me

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Robin Williams

Doug L

I agree with you Doug! 70s are not to cool to incubate eggs and in my oppions mid to upper 70s is better then lower 80s (JUST MY OPPION).

Jason

What temps are the temps in the room and how much do the temps vary in an average day?

I incubate my eggs any where from 74 to 82 degress and even with variant temps ranges. I have had great success in the upper 70s, but eggs take a couple weeks longer to hatch.

Jason

I will check the temps through the house and try to find a place warm anof say atlest 80 to 83 but if I can't then I will get it a incubator and already have a helix for my rack so lets see lol

Like the other guys said, the mid to upper 70's are perfectly fine and I personally like those temps better than the lower 80's. Like Jason, I prefer the upper 70's.

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Randy Whittington

If you have a heated rack system - use that!!
I don't have tons of eggs but I buy a few small rubbermaid / sterlite containers. Put vermiculite or perlite with the correct amount of water, a few vent holes and place them right in the sweater box container in the rack. Just need to know what the temps are and where the temps are. Do not cook them. As most people are saying ... high 70's tends to be safer than low 80's, but they both work. You already have what you need.
You could also make one out of a ten gallon fish tank and a aquarium heater. Look it up on line and you'll find some easy ways to get where you want.
Use your rack system or I have even hatched in a plastic shoe box on the top shelt of my bedroom closet.

Just my thoughts

Steve