Last year was my first year with eggs and I had good success with a makeshift incubator ... looks like I may be hooking it up again this year!

Its an old deepfreezer with about a foot of water in the bottom. Its obviously pre-insulated and a submersible aquarium heater keeps it at a constant 80 degrees no problem. Humidity is 100%, I just made sure to open it every few days for fresh air. I use fluorescent light fixture "diffuser?" for a table top surface then just throw in some boxes with moist perlite/vermiculite and set the eggs on top. The last and most important detail I think was leaning plastic on an angle overtop of the containers (which were also on angles) so that no water dripped down onto the eggs.




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Jon Wedow
Sharp Dressed Snakes

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