I didnt know this til glancing threw the directions to my incubator your suppost to put water in part of the plastic tray at the bottom of the incubator? How often should it be refilled?
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Thermal Incubator
Jbuggs20
Mar 19, 2004 05:54 AM
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beakgeek
Mar 19, 2004 08:29 AM
If you are using perlite and following the directions from Albey's Cool Reptiles site you won't need to put water in the bottom.
Regards,
Terry
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Terry Brashear
1.0.0 High Yellow
0.1.0 Lavender
0.1.0 Hypo Carrot-tail
2 eggs incubating
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Finnigan
Mar 19, 2004 10:29 AM
I just got my hovabator as well.
The incubator is made for chicken and other fowl eggs, so the directions are for those kinds of eggs.
You'll be incubating your leos in some medium (say, vermiculite) in a closed plastic container. Your humidity issues will start and end inside the plastic container.
Other than basic setup and operation, ignore everything it says in the hovabotar instructions.
Joel
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2.5 Leopard Geckos
0.1 Ball Python
0.1 Okeetee Corn Snake
1.0 Blair's Phase Gray Banded Kingsnake
0.0.2 Crested Geckos
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bigdee
Mar 19, 2004 11:05 AM
wait I just read the other 2 post if this is so why do we need the hovabator, the way it sounds like is the container the eggs are in itself is the incubator it just needs heat. Could i just put the lone eggs in the hovabator? why does everyone use the containers and moist medium if the incubator will do the job?
beakgeek
Mar 20, 2004 08:24 PM
you wrote:
wait I just read the other 2 post if this is so why do we need the hovabator, the way it sounds like is the container the eggs are in itself is the incubator it just needs heat. Could i just put the lone eggs in the hovabator? why does everyone use the containers and moist medium if the incubator will do the job?
Using the containers allows you to control the humidity of the eggs. Yes, you can use the water holders in the hovabator to control humidity, but it is easier to use albey's techniques since you never need to add water, just open the container for air exchange once a week. The hovabator just supplies a place to accurately control the temperature.
Regards,
Terry
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Terry Brashear
1.0.0 High Yellow
0.1.0 Lavender
0.1.0 Hypo Carrot-tail
2 eggs incubating
http://www.naturepixels.com/gecko
