Calling All New Brinsea Owners!!! January Hatch-a-long...

[TheReidHomestead]

I emailed them and asked them when they were shipping mine. They were prompt in their response. Go to their site and click on contact us and ask.
Ginny

Thank you! Just emailed them.

 

[Kelly G]

Well..........the deed is done........I ordered the Mini Advanced off Ebay. It will be here by the 19th.

 

[sonew123]

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What is wicking and what's a wicking pad?

ok so the wells in my brinsea are really deep so what I did was buy a wicking pab made for humidifiers..bent it and palced it in the water well-then folded the other oart under the egg holder-it allows the water to slowly "wick" spread up and onto the whole pad and give more surface area for humidity

 

[enggass]

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What is wicking and what's a wicking pad?

ok so the wells in my brinsea are really deep so what I did was buy a wicking pab made for humidifiers..bent it and palced it in the water well-then folded the other oart under the egg holder-it allows the water to slowly "wick" spread up and onto the whole pad and give more surface area for humidity

Cool. Yeah, I have the Brinsea Eco 20. Very dry here in the winter and I have been testing mine getting ready for hatch. Tough to get the humidity up with just the 2 wells. Where can I find these wicking pads?

 

[sonew123]

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ok so the wells in my brinsea are really deep so what I did was buy a wicking pab made for humidifiers..bent it and palced it in the water well-then folded the other oart under the egg holder-it allows the water to slowly "wick" spread up and onto the whole pad and give more surface area for humidity

Cool. Yeah, I have the Brinsea Eco 20. Very dry here in the winter and I have been testing mine getting ready for hatch. Tough to get the humidity up with just the 2 wells. Where can I find these wicking pads?

anywhere that sells humidifiers-grab the ones that expand like a flat pad and grows when water is added not the netted hard looking ones-if worse comes to sorse double fold a piece of paper towel and do the same thing!!

 

[Kelly G]

I use these pads: http://www.cutlersupply.com/cart/in...ducts_id=293&zenid=dlt0neti3dsvt3g54kjl7iqoc2

I trimmed these pads to fit in the troughs - and it does a good job at increasing the humidity.

 

[CDennis]

Maybe I should just stop messing with it, but my humidity seems low so I try to bump it just a bit and end up over 55% this is my first hatch so I am a little paranoid, it is ok to have that much fluctuation? Is it better to be low than high or high than low? I have both channels fulled did have a small piece of rag but removed that when the humidity got so high. Any advice?

 

[Kelly G]

O.K., so I just checked my eggs - no pips yet. *sigh*


So what if they've only been in 12 hours!!!!!!!!! It's hard to wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sonew123]

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you can take a syringe and suction out a little bit? or leave it to slowly dwindle down-thats what I do-

 

[blefky]

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I definitely sympathize!