hasanyone used lights for incubation or just leave them at room temp in a deli cup like mostly every one do
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incubation lighting
russ31
Jul 07, 2004 04:42 PM
Replies (3)
uroplatusguy
Jul 08, 2004 01:05 AM
when i incubate my satanic eggs, i have them coverd behind a humitity gauge on the floor of a five and a half gallon tank. the tank is setup like a terrium that holds my other leaftail gecko groups. i also air them out just like my other tanks. i have live plants in them and light is visable but does not shine on them.
umop_apisdn
Jul 09, 2004 02:09 AM
when i incubated mine, i just made a small screen cage, lined the bottom with peat moss, and left it in with the adults. so yea, they got the same fluorescent light the adults did.
bsmith251
Oct 27, 2004 06:21 PM
Oh lordy... I don't know if I should even begin to describe my incubator set up!... Its complex... The basic design was shared with me by Kelly Sharp but I tweaked it a little bit... I am not a beleiver in deli cup and peat moss/sphagnum moss incubation techniques... There are several reasons why, but one is the fact that you can't really control the amount of water the egg comes in contact with... My eggs have all been exposed to regular flourescent light on and off... Not regularly... I'm at odds with myself in deciding what type of effect this may have... I have never had a fertile egg not hatch though... Obviously in the wild they wouldn't get much light so I dunno... I would venture to say that its a very minimal effect...
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Ben
