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BREEDING QUESTION PLEASE HELP PLEASE

i am wondering about how to build a incubator for reptiles. I would like any plans that have a good sucsess rate. thank you for your help
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I dont have any written plans, but I use an old upright freezer (with all the refrigeration parts removed to reduce weight) connected to a 50w ceramic heat emitter placed at the bottom in a dome lamp, then connect it to a biostat AT or similar thermostat. Also, an indoor outdoor thermometer comes in handy on the outside to spot check. It will take a week or two to calibrate it to the proper temps.

Ive used this method for nearly 11 years, and have hatched several hundred lizard , snake , and turtle eggs in the same incubator.

Its cheap too, I put mine together for less than 60$

I used the neodesha plastic incubators, that used to run about 200$ new, and those never were that reliable.

Just goes to show you an elaborate expensive incubator is not necessarily the best choice.
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We use an old fridge, complete with the shelving. Drilled a small hole to run a power cord in to two heat lamps and a computer fan. The temp probe and thermostat is inside, a digital humidity/temp readout is fixed outside and each shelf has a thermometer on it. There is a padlock on the door to keep prying fingers away and it sits on the back verandah.

Didn't even need to pull the old fridge workings out.
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John White posted a great do it yourself incubator plan---

http://redtailboa.net/index.php?name...wtopic&t=16209

made it a sticky.
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