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My three toed laid 2 eggs june 26th and laid 4 more july 27th.I put them in a tupperware bowl with moistened vercemulite,poked holes in the top and placed them in a hovabator incubator set at 82 degrees.My humidity gauge wouldn't get over 75% so I filled the bottom of the incubator with water,still no change.I thought I had a bad humidity gauge so I bought another one,still got the same reading.I put a large bowl of water in the incubator and it got up to about 80%.How do you get and maintain 90% humidity,or is 75 to 80% ok?I was thinking of blocking off the air holes in the top and bottom of the incubator,I don't know if this will help or hurt.The incubator is a still air version annd I keep it inside the house in a back bedroom that doesn't get much use.The inside temp is kept at around 75 degrees.Should I move the incubator out into the garage,I really don't want to because it might be to much activity,and I might not beable to control the tempature like I can inside the house. Thanks

A few random thoughts on the matter:
An airconditioned room might not be the best place to try to maintain humidity, since airconditioning extracts moisture from the air. Have you considered adjusting the AC (if any) in that one room?
There should be some air circulation, so I would say that covering airholes wouldn't be a good idea.
I incubate mine in a homemade setup, and moisten the vermiculite regularly (you don't mention whether you do that or not): so far so good.
I don't have specific advice since I don't use a 'real' incubator myself.
Stephanie

I understand the air conditioning problem,but was wondering if 80% was an acceptable level of humidity for a successful hatch.I do add water when I see that it is needed,the eggs look fine,they are not calapsing or moldy.Thanks

>>I understand the air conditioning problem,but was wondering if 80% was an acceptable level of humidity for a successful hatch.I do add water when I see that it is needed,the eggs look fine,they are not calapsing or moldy.Thanks

My Boxies laid eggs 2 weeks ago. I maintain 85 to 90% humidity, I use vermucilite for bottom and on top damp moss covering the eggs. You want to keep humidity high around 80 to 90%. SO yes yours is good but you could try to get it to 85%.
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I'm pretty sure the vermucilite is moist enough I put some wet moss on top of the eggs just to make sure,the first 2 have been in the incubator for about 5 weeks and it looks like they are doing fine.I don't know how much they should be developed at this time but it looks like they have red blood vessels when I shine a flashlite on them at nite.