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I know I am in the wrong area but no one responds in the Herp Health & Breeding form so I thought I would ask here since so many people are in here. What is a good incubator to get that is around $200 or less. I know its going to be a few years before my snakes are ready to breed but I have other reptiles from day geckos to bearded dragons. thanks.

>>I know I am in the wrong area but no one responds in the Herp Health & Breeding form so I thought I would ask here since so many people are in here. What is a good incubator to get that is around $200 or less. I know its going to be a few years before my snakes are ready to breed but I have other reptiles from day geckos to bearded dragons. thanks.

Check out the Hovabators....They are affordable enough to get multiple ones and should do the trick for just a few reptile pairings.......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

I am using a hovabator for my alterna eggs, and after 3 weeks, I am very satisfied with it. Temp is very steady, and the eggs look great.

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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) cornsnakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase, 2008 (and 14 eggs)

Yep both of those work great. I just keep them in a shoe box with vermiculite and leave them in my snake room which stays between 78 and 86, but mostly about 82. It doesn't have to be fancy.
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Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

I just copy pasted from the other forum: I have one I bought from lllreptile and it's not bad. Just double check your temps no matter what the digital temp says it is. Mine was off about -5 degrees. It looks like a mini fridge. Honestly though now I use an old wine refrigerator that I outfitted with some heat tape and a t-stat. Mine stays at a steady temp and it could use a little better humidity but it's pretty nice. Since i got the fridge for free and I'm an electrician and happened to have some heat tape, it only cost me for the t-stat.

One of my big Styrofoam boxes with a lasagna pan full of perlite/vermiculite and the thermostat probe and thermometer probe inside near the eggs. Have used this design for fence lizard eggs several times successfully and this year am doing snake eggs. Lid of Styrofoam box is off to show eggs. It is heated with an 8 watt Zoomed heater. The lasagna pan sits on a bread cooing rack over the UTH. The other Styrofoam box is doing crickets. The cricket tubs are in bigger tubs also on racks over the UTH. The Styrofoam boxes are further wrapped in quilts to help maintain even temps. When it gets hot in the summer I put one of those frozen gel packs in to give the thermostat something to work against and keep the temps in the right range. I didn't have to buy anything, just used materials on hand. I have a Hovabator but it uses too much electricity. twice as much as my two Zoomed heaters put together. Also it was always getting too hot and hard to cool down. Am off grid so power consumption matters. If I should in the future wind up with lots of snake eggs from many snakes I have an old refrigerator I can convert.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Thanks for the info.

I was asking the same question a few months ago. LOL! Lassiter inspired me with his "magabator". Although mine doesn't compete with his, it does the job and was very simple and inexpensive to build. I found a used "magic chef" wine cooler for $30; installed some flex watt with thermostat, some shelves, and a computer fan, and WALLAH.....now I just need my females to get busy laying!

Good luck!

That's really cool.

Thanks. Relatively inexpensive and simple to build too.

I like simple and cheap. LOL.