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What kind of incubator do you use for tort eggs? I've been using one that I made from an igloo cooler and a chicken egg incubator. It works good but it takes up a lot of room for the number of eggs that it holds. I've heard of making an incubator out of a refrigerator . Any suggestions

I use the commercially available Hovabators which are most probably pretty similar to what you have described that you devised yourself. An internal fan for air circulation is an option and I cannot recall at the moment if the small plexiglass observation window is another option or if all of them have it.

Let's see what anyone else has to say on this topic.

I also use the commercial havobator but having had a spike in temperature a few seasons ago I made some changes. I now plug the Havobator into my digital thermostat that will kick the havobator off if it attempts to exceed 88 degrees. I always incubate my eggs at 84 degrees but several seasons ago the wafer failed and the temp. spiked to 120 killing all the eggs I had in it. This will never happen again or lets say should not with the double safety I now use. Good Luck--Richard

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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."

This is a picture of my incubators....Crabs were stored in these thick walled styrophome large containers. The digital thermostats are in celsius so it is set to turn the havobator off should it hit 31.1 degrees celsius which is 88 degrees F.

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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."