Home Made Incubator.....Any Ideas???

[kc--leigh]

Since your temps are hotter there is a wine cooler that people but from walmart to use and its resonably priced. Theres it's own thread for it on the forum, if I can find it I'll post the link.

[ORTIZ]

thankz alot for your guys help and knowledge

[MoonriseGeckos]

My house stays pretty cool and I keep my eggs in a powder room. Probably fluctuates between 64-74.

[ORTIZ]

Is it recommended if you leave the eggs in the enclosure......its pretty big and my crestie just layed 2 eggs last night and i found them in the morning

[meg90]

No its not recommended to leave eggs in the enclosure. If the parents find the hatchlings before you do, they just have a nice lunch. Plus, tracking down a 1.5g gecko in a big enclosure would be no picnic either, they have all their instincts telling them to hide, and survive. I can't imagine it would be an easy feat.

I've also used this method (in fact, I'm using it right now ):
http://youtu.be/U4jlfUxfWrQ <---made this vid two years ago, and I have heard from a few people who have used that method and done fine

[Sublime Reptiles]

It is normal to have temp flux, remember in the wild temps to not stay at a constant. You will find many breeders are doing day and night time temps with a couple of degree differences to see if one it produces nicer hatchlings, and trying to find out if the species (all species of rhacs) and be sex temped. So there has been some tinkering with the temp changes. It has been found however cooler produce larger/healthier babies with better crest structure.

You can do as Meg did in her video, but you can also instead of purchasing a cooler as such, you can invest in the styrofoam ones, they work in the same manor.

I have tried a few methods of what to store the eggs in during incubation. I used deli containers for a while, then realized I had deli containers everywhere. Then I went to using a bead case for a couple of years, which worked out really well. Then the SIM incubator came out and I gave that a try....I lost a good 40% of my eggs that year. The only thing I could contribute it too was the SIM. Now I used the SIM last year for my phelsuma eggs and had 100% hatch rate, so maybe it just doesnt work well for cresteds, idk, but it didnt work for me. So last year and I am continuing again this year with the bead case. It is nice as if an egg goes bad (infertile), mold doesnt transfer over to the next egg. I do not loose much humidity, and it makes it so much easier to know who's baby is who as I can clearly mark each cubby.

[ORTIZ]

Nice thankz for the ideas...

[ORTIZ]

I also happen to have a cooler so ima give it a try....hopefully it works....keeping my fingers crossed here hopefully all goes well
But almost forgot i got to candel them first jeje

[meg90]

And if you find that out of the tap water isn't cold enough, I usually just kept a store of jars/water bottles in my fridge and just swapped out one to two jars as needed

Hope it helps!

[pleh]

I have never candled an egg. I figure the less handling the better, and honestly, in what way is candling helping the embryo hatch?