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Hey my male Normal and female Ghost just did the deed if you know what I mean. I was wondering if anyone knew a easy/cheap way to build a incubator? And if anyone can tell me what kind of offspring?

Thanks
Chuck

>>Hey my male Normal and female Ghost just did the deed if you know what I mean. I was wondering if anyone knew a easy/cheap way to build a incubator? And if anyone can tell me what kind of offspring?
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>>Thanks
>>Chuck

Congrats! I used to have the plans for a homemade incubator that was pretty cheap but i can't see to find them LOL I figured that the cost difference b/t making your own and buying a hovabator is not worth the time and energy and you get a little more reliability with a product that has a good reputation. Assuming that neither parent is carrying any other genes than are expressed(wild type, anery A, and hypo) you will get all normals het for ghost good luck
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Buy a small styrofoam ice chest(You can find them at dollar stores sometimes) and an aquarium heater. Put about 5 inches of water in the ice chest and hang the heater inside, so that the heater can heat the water.

Use a small plastic box (with lid) to put your eggs in, in a bed of vermiculite or perlite. You'll need something to keep the plastic box on so it is above the water. A plastic cup sawed in half works good; put both halves in and rest the plastic box across both making sure it is stable.

Before you put your eggs in, you'll need to spend a day or two adjusting the temperature to where you want it. I keep two thermometers floating in mine just to be sure.

So lets see, that's $1 for the ice chest, $1 for the plastic box, $8-10 for the aquarium heater, a couple bucks for a bag of vermiculite and another couple for a thermometer...you're looking at about 15 bucks for a homemade incubator. Good luck!

Thank you for the intructions.

Chuck

and they used to rot alot of eggs too......

cheaper to just buy a HovaBator ........45$,,,,,

........yep

actually....cheaper for cornsnakes..NO incubator.....they do not need it....

find a spot around the house that is 80 to 82 degrees......

hint....look above the fridge...........

I tell people this every year....and it works.....

most people have a shelf somewhere over or right beside the fridge.......

(I heat a whole room..no I don't use kitchen).......82 degrees is my whole room...so I just stick the eggs on a shelf......(4 shelves)......LOL

I have a hovabator but I use this set up anyway. I really like it and it takes up less space. I can put this on the counter in the kitchen, where the hovabator wont fit. I've incubated corn and king eggs and am presently incubating leopard gecko eggs. I have yet to have an egg go bad. I've had a 100% hatch rate every time. I wonder why your friends had problems with their eggs.

I'd love to try putting them on the refrigerator but my refrigerator is out in a utility room that is unheated. It gets very cold out there.

I tried a home made incubator for the first month of incubation last year and killed two of the eggs. I probably could have saved them if I had more experience, like you seem to. But it was my first clutch of eggs, other than unfertilized dove eggs in high school.

I bought a hovabator for 35$ and now will always have a nice safe incubator I think if your new to this, a Hovabator is well worth the small investment. IMO
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with the aquarium heater..and all that water...the droplets formed on the lid and dripped all over the eg boxes and into the egg boxes dampening the eggs to the point of swelling and even dieing and molding in cases.....

........(slant lid so drops fall in corners?......)

......it works..be careful.........

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