Home made incubators

[Fly]

Originally Posted by wolves-stu

Like the aquarium place i used to work they charged people £5 for poly boxes

Or Emsworth Reptiles who charged me a fiver!!!!

[Declan123]

the ones i get say Free to Good home lol

I get them all

[StuW247]

I get mine free from work. We use them to pack brocolli and then put ice on them

[Craig08]

Those incubators are ruddy genious!

I must have a dozen of those polly boxes in the shed from years of marine fish keeping (fish & corals come in those boxes).

Does it make any difference how deep the eggs are in the vermiculite at all?
Is there any way to ensure most of your hatchlings are male or female by altering the depth, temp, humidity in the boxes at all?

Iv bred fish and there are LOTS of things you can do to ensure a primarily male/female batch.

Sorry to go a little off topic but it would be useful to know if anyone has tried it

[ladybird]

Thanks for the info, I made the poly box one but with a little variation. I got the poly box and cut a round hole in the top so that a bulb holder can fit, with an infra red bulb for heating, connected to a dimmer stat. I also cut some triangular holes in the sides of the poly box and stuck perspex in with aquarium sealant for windows. So far it has worked perfectly, the temperature hasn't changed at all, not even 0.1 of a degree! I'll be using it for my crestie eggs that I should have soon from one of my gravid females. Hopefully it will hatch them out ok!

[Sprocket]

I have to make one of the fridge type ones, the hunt is on for the donor fridge !

[billybilboa]

Just get yourself down to the local tip, ours has a container just for fridges, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind you pinching one!

Billy

[bEnNy THE BeArDeD]

bice one you should try and sell some on the interet they look proffesnial too good job

[Scaley]

ive just made an incubator, 4got bout this thread tho!!!
mine is similar 2 the first 1 but ive got a heat strip/mat running all the way round the inside, same level as where the eggs will b, do u think this will b ok? ive got the stat probe on the mat then il b puttin a temp prope on the vermic wiv the eggs. it looks the bussiness, just hope it works!!!

[Scaley]

thought id put the pics up of my incubator, so u guys can tell me if ive done right or wrong?!!

a perspex window sealed on the inside, just gota get more aquarium sealent!



excuse the cables!!! i had 2 get rid of them sum where!