Hilde,
> I have a homemade one that's been in use for just
> over 4 years.
> It's just a styrofoam cooler, a 10 gallon size UTH
> and rheostat. The deli cups
> sit on an egg crate platform raised about 2 inches
> above the UTH which is set to
> approximately 88�F. The UTH is just slightly off
> centre, so the coolest spot is
> around 82�F.
>
> It's considerably cheaper to make than buying an
> incubator. The cheapest I could
> find here in Canada was $90 CDN (appox $60 US), and
> I don't always trust 'the
> cheapest' very much. This set-up cost me about $25
> CDN.
> But the biggest advantage is fixing it. If it
> breaks, I don't have to be a
> mechanical genius to figure out what's wrong, and
> it's really easy to replace
> the few working parts, no special parts order
> needed.
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What do you do for humidity levels? How do you cover
the "incubator"? Do you just set the UTH in the
bottom of the cooler, then lay the egg crates on top?
By deli cups, do you mean the containers you get stuff
in a the deli counters, like potato salad? We have
saved tons of them! Do you put anything in the bottom
of them? Questions, questions, and more questions! LOL
Thanks!
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Laura
Universal Bettas
http://www.UniversalBettas.homestead.com/UniBetas.html
aka A.C.G.& S. Menagerie
"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and
wonderful, The Lord God made them all..."
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