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Incubating in HomeMade Incubator

FatAl Mar 29, 2004 07:19 PM

Hi All,

My Geckos laid eggs today and i setup my homemade incubator out of a 5 gallon tank filled half-way with water with a submersible aquarium heater. I placed the eggs in a plastic sandwich box (with a couple air holes in the top) above the water on top of two bricks. The temerature above the water is at 83F.

I was worried about the humidity. i have a plastic lid placed on top of the aquarium and the humidity is so high in there that the whole aquarium is foggy and the top is dripping water... i was wondering if such high humidity can be harmful to the eggs... should i leave a larger part of the tank open at the top? Any advice you can offer would be helpful..

PS... i have the eggs in moist vermiculite...

oh and how long after laying should a gecko begin eating... both my geckos laid yesterday.. one of them is eating like mad.. the other wont touch food... Thank you

Alex

Replies (1)

TLB Mar 29, 2004 07:22 PM

Hi

You want about 85 percent humidity in the incubator, if to much then the eggs could get moldy even if fertile.

TLB

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