incubators

[truncheon1973]

ok i have a question, i have several home made incubators at home that do a great job but i need big ones now

my burms will be breeding soon so does anyone know if you can buy big incubators instead of the little small ones?

thanks

[tortoise_dude]

On eBay they have a lot of larger incubators that farms etc would use. Expensive though. Are Burm eggs particularly big or do they just lay large clutches?

[R.E.C.S]

how big is your burm and has she bred before??

your looking at eggs the size of a tennis ball, my 11ft burm dropped 22 of them and my 15ft burm dropped 68.

depending on how big she is will pretty much determine how many eggs she will have, as for the incubator i can build quite a big one for you to hold burm eggs.

[truncheon1973]

she is 8ft now but growing so fast so wont be too long and i have another female at a different facility that is 12 foot

[R.E.C.S]

i would say you need an incubator to hold about 60 eggs to be on the safe side, more if you want to.

an incubator to hold these eggs would be about, 3ft tall x 2ft wide x 2ft deep

6 shelves each holding 12 eggs, so in total you can hold 70 eggs

[tortoise_dude]

Would you be able to sell 60 babies? I know nothing about snakes and their availability, but, I assume it'd be difficult to find homes for 60 babies that are likely to grow to 15ft.... Would it not be better to only incubate some of them?

Or do a fridge conversion with heat-tape??

[truncheon1973]

well i have an old fridge freezer but how would you convert it?

[tortoise_dude]

It involves ripping out the cooling system and using heat tape/cable on a thermostat.

PM fantapants- she did one and will give you some guidance