Making your own aquarium incubator
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I´ve done that thing. But I used a styrofoam box.
I tested it with that aquariumheater and with a thermostat with heatcable in the water.
In the ende the heater works better than the cable but both had to much varies in the temperature so I bought a 100% good working one.
But if you don´t look on the gender of your hatchlings it works good I guess but I always had much condensate water around the cups.
I tested it with that aquariumheater and with a thermostat with heatcable in the water.
In the ende the heater works better than the cable but both had to much varies in the temperature so I bought a 100% good working one.
But if you don´t look on the gender of your hatchlings it works good I guess but I always had much condensate water around the cups.
goReptiles
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I've done something similar....
* aquarium with a few inches of water
* under water aquarium heater, set to 80F
* kritter keepers with moist perlite
It's not accurate, and it led to 0 hatchlings as the water didn't hold heat accurately, and the heater caused the water to evaporate quickly. It wasn't worth the time. I only tested about 4 eggs or so from a proven gecko.
I'd just invest in a hovabator or make an incubator with a styrofoam cooler, heat tape, and thermostat.
* aquarium with a few inches of water
* under water aquarium heater, set to 80F
* kritter keepers with moist perlite
It's not accurate, and it led to 0 hatchlings as the water didn't hold heat accurately, and the heater caused the water to evaporate quickly. It wasn't worth the time. I only tested about 4 eggs or so from a proven gecko.
I'd just invest in a hovabator or make an incubator with a styrofoam cooler, heat tape, and thermostat.
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LeopardGeckoMom52688
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I did that last year. Ended up with a baby that was blind, and two healthy ones and for some reason lost the rest of her eggs all 15 of them. All fertile and when opened up fully formed geckos. No idea what happened. I just spent about 60 and bought two. Won one on ebay and bought a new one. Well worth it all of course wont be able to tell you for another few months but everyone else uses them so I don't have any worries this year!
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Rep-Tails
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I made one of those my first breeding year, and could not stand it. The cups were always wet, and it was hard to keep the temps constant. The glass has no thermal protection, its to thin and lets the water cool off to much. I found a fridge on the side of the road and cleaned it up and re-wired it with flex watt, and two helix DBS-1000's. I used the freezer for males and bottom for females. I love it, and the only cost was electrical.
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