🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[Lunah452]

I’d find a happy medium. Being low or too high isn’t good. I run my bator at 100.5 and have had great success with it. It’s not too hot and not too cold and leave wiggle room.

I can't seem to calibrate any better than that. I'll try setting the therm for 99.5 as the lowest reading and see where that leaves me at the max temp

 

[kelseyk]

Question for the more experienced hatchers. I had my incubator temp fluctuating between 98.5 to 100.4. I read somewhere here that it shouldn't go below 99.5. I've now have it bouncing between 99.1 to 101.1. Is it better to run high/low temp on the high side or on the lower end. I have a Hova-Bator 1602 with a fan.

I have mine set to run between 99-101 (same incubator) and know for sure it is working in 1 of the 2 incubators. The other holds my more beat up shipped eggs so I am undecided on if it is something with the incubator or if it is just the eggs that are the problem.

 

[Lunah452]

I have mine set to run between 99-101 (same incubator) and know for sure it is working in 1 of the 2 incubators. The other holds my more beat up shipped eggs so I am undecided on if it is something with the incubator or if it is just the eggs that are the problem.

TY, I'll go with that

 

[kelseyk]

2nd of the 2 deathlayers hatched this morning! 1 pip on the Bresse eggs. And 4 Isbar/Silverudds added to the hatcher.

 

[kelseyk]

Eggs galore! Lol! 4 orders came in today! My foxfire Isbar/Silverudds, my foxfire CCLs, my Red Pyle Phoenix Bantams, and.....my lost Pita Pinta eggs. The Pita Pintas are at least 9-10 days old, but were packaged really well and air sacs are still intact. I think I might put them in my Janoel and see if I get anything. I have to put them in the Janoel because I didn't plan on so many extras from foxfire and have more than what will fit in the 2 hovabators after my deathlayers arrive tomorrow.

 

[AusHen]

And do you have a pic of your Blue Tongue Skink? I want one so bad... I have a bearded dragon and leopard gecko

His Name is Blue (not very original lol) He was given to me when his original owner went through a breakup and had to move. I want to expand my reptiles but I need to set up some more enclosures first, sadly no non Australian natives allowed such as leopard geckos

 

[RoseHawke]

Question for the more experienced hatchers. I had my incubator temp fluctuating between 98.5 to 100.4. I read somewhere here that it shouldn't go below 99.5. I've now have it bouncing between 99.1 to 101.1. Is it better to run high/low temp on the high side or on the lower end. I have a Hova-Bator 1602 with a fan.

I, too, have the same one and it drove me nuts trying to keep the temp stable. I had to keep tinkering with it throughout the incubation even though the instructions pretty much said not to. If I'd paid attention to the instructions I'd have either cooked or frozen those eggs. And that turner puts off quite a bit of heat, the temp dropped like crazy when I turned it off but it took me a while to realize why it had dropped so much. I do this again I'm going to do some jiggering with it and hook it up to the Johnson temp controller I've got that we'd gotten for a kegerator. It's very accurate and rock solid for keeping temperature within a degree of setpoint.

 

[FortCluck]

His Name is Blue (not very original lol) He was given to me when his original owner went through a breakup and had to move. I want to expand my reptiles but I need to set up some more enclosures first, sadly no non Australian natives allowed such as leopard geckos

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He’s gorgeous!

My husband wants a monitor I am actually thinking about getting a tortoise

 

[ShrekDawg]

You guys should join my reptile thread LOL

 

[FortCluck]

You guys should join my reptile thread LOL

Put the link on here