If your dish with water is making humidity to high, then use a dish with smaller surface area, but you also have to give it awhile in your incubator before you evaluate it. It takes trial and error and a bit of time for things to change. Also I would use something with around one inch or more depth so you don't have to refill every few hours. I would personally use something that would give me 35-40% humidity for the first 18 days and not exceed 42%. Where I live I need no water at all in the humidity tray the first 18 days because its 39% humidity naturally. Also remember when chicks start to hatch the humidity will jump on its own up to 20%, so you may not need to increase the water container size at all.
My tray is a bit big for the humidity I need so I fill it with one inch of water and add shot glasses with small rocks in the shot glasses to actually lessen the surface area of water in the tray till Humidity is right. The little rocks in the shot glasses will hold them down in the tray. I think I put (4) shot glasses in my tray to get mine right.
My tray is a bit big for the humidity I need so I fill it with one inch of water and add shot glasses with small rocks in the shot glasses to actually lessen the surface area of water in the tray till Humidity is right. The little rocks in the shot glasses will hold them down in the tray. I think I put (4) shot glasses in my tray to get mine right.
