Jon Isaksson wrote:
Thank you Julie & Rick,
I just been on e-bay and found a few fridges for sale, and one seller is selling "beer fridges" with a glass door, but the compressors are broken, which sounds ideal! So I placed a bid for one of them.
Those sound ideal!
Julie, you mention that the problems were with airflow and humidity, would you mind elaborating a bit more?
Those are things you need to set up properly, that is your challenge. I use the Helix incubators which have very good components, possibly they would sell you some. For humidity and air circulation they drill a hole in the side and have an air pump going through a plastic water bottle (like used in a science lab). Very cool!
I can see that a computer fan would solve the airflow problem but I guess that might cause some drying out of the eggs.
You can always stick in a pan of water and adjust that.
So how have you all DIYers solved the humidity problem?
Regards, Jon
Julie B.
One idea I had seen involved taking the refrigeration mechanism off the back of an old refrigerator, putting a heating element inside the remaining cooler, rigging a thermostat, and using that as an incubator. For that matter, I Don't know why the same thing couldn't be done with a normal beer cooler. I'm also interested in hearing whether people have experience with homemade incubators such as these, and what kind of problems we DIYers might run into that we might not forsee.
Rick
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Jon Isaksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gecko]Incubators Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:31:07 +0100
Hello,
as I am on the subject of incubating gecko eggs, I cant help thinking about getting a new incubator.
Up to recently, have I used an incubator from my university, which they didn’t need after an upgrade of all of their lab equipment, so I managed to get it for £20, an absolute bargain as the news one they bought was at an excess of £1000
Unfortunately has it finally given up, though I got many years out of it.
So I am now thinking about what to replace it with
For years, I have been thinking of building some sort of incubator out of a "normal" wooden terrarium. Put a fan in, heater mat with a thermostat etc.
I am sure this isn’t a very unusual idea, so what is everyone using as an incubator and what are the pitfalls with building your own?
Cheers Jon --------------------------- Jon Isaksson Manchester UK
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