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AJ · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

I am hear just slow down for me you now how i like to take things real easy Lynne Wink

Poly box , heat pad , small tubs to incubate them in Vermiculite/Perlite most important thing Habistat temp controller and you have an incubator .
Or go to B.Q buy a plant propagator with a temp control on it and use that .
AJ
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Ailurus · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject:

lol cheers lynne.

lol my mum thought i had gone mad, i ran downstairs, and grapped a tupperware container from the kitchen and started cutting a hole in the lid, and she was confused and asked me what i was doing i told her, and she was excited as well lol.

thanks for all the help everybody. I put the laying box in, and it has peat and some substrate from the tank in, which i sprayed with water, to make it damp.

How do i make an incubator?

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oh sorry thanks AJ, when u say habistat heat controller do you mean a thermostat?

and how much are those B and Q things?
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quasimodo · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

In view of the fact that you might need one in roughly 5 minutes time Laughing

here are a couple of suggestions to play around with. You are looking for warmth and humidity, sooooo do you have a smallish plastic tub that would hold around 15 small eggs ? Put a couple of inches of vermiculite from Garden Center, or the moss, into box. Have it damp, but not so wet that water can be squeezed out of it as that would be fatal. Holes in sides of box as oxygen is needed by the eggs. Put whole into larger tub with a couple of inches of water in it, and put lid of larger tub firmly on. Oh, put something into the water to rest the smaller tub on so that it is not sitting in the water.

If your reptile room is about 80 degrees all the time put the box in there with a temperature probe poked into the substrate. Look on web, or someone will tell you, to find out required temp for incubation of Corn eggs. I seem to remember about 77 ? The above very simple arrangement should give you the right temperature.

I know that it sounds daft, no extra heat, but if the room is warm enough it works Very Happy

If room too cool then put heat mat under tubs, or fish-tank heater into larger tanks water. You just need to get the heat right with high humidity.

All the best.

Lynne · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

Ailurus · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject:

AJ · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

Temps you will be looking to get in the incubation box is about 80 with humidity around about 100% .And no it may take a few days for her to settle in the lay box.
AJ
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Ailurus · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject:

ok cheers AJ.

i am so excited now though, but mustn't get my hopes up too high.
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quasimodo · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject:

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Lynne · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

hey that fish tank idea is good sue.
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Ailurus · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: