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I am expecting two clutchs of Python eggs in the next couple of weeks, and am sure that I do not have enough incubator space. I know, I can keep them with Mama, but my animals are in my garage, and the temps can move a little to much, to often for safe egg incubation. Anyone have any good, home made incubator ideas? I actually have several large wattage aquarium heaters, and lots of tanks, so I am thinking of making a substratless setup, with water on the bottem, and eggs on a small grate etc... Anyone else have any creative ideas for egg incubation? I am expecting about 50-60 eggs.

T~

A quick and easy way would to be to go to lowes or home depot, and buy a large 4 by 8 sheet of 1-2" thick insulation foam or styroforam (it only runs about 12 bucks for a huge sheet), and just cut it down to to make a big box structure out of it. Just glue it together with liquid nails or something. Easy, and simple. You could then maybe put a couple pans or tanks of water in the bottom, and either use your aquarium heater to heat as you said, or wind heat tape all the way around the perimeter. Nice thing is, you can build this to EXACTLY the size and shape that you need. Spend a little extra time reinforcing some of it with some sort of frame, and you could make yourself a nice, solid incubator that'll last for at least several years.
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Plywood exterior box with 2" polystyrene insulation in interior. Use the top half of a hovabator on the top. This is just increasing the capacity of a standard hovabator. They are designed for chick eggs which are incubated at around 100F... therefore, the heating capacity of the heating element can handle a much larger volume. The enclosure could be cut to house a large interior container (which houses the eggs).

Thanks. Good ideas both. Guess I am headed to Home Depot this weekend.

T~