How many times turning with the Brinsea Mini Advanced

[San]

Sorry for the late answer

, I am going to put the bator on the dinning table in the living room!

 

[San]

I filled the water all to the top, just wondering if everyone is doing that or just one part with water and at lockdown both?

 

[duckking]

A little late to the discussion.....just set 7 eggs in my Mini Advance. Temperature is staying perfectly steady using an independent thermometer and the digital one. I set the eggs to roll on #9 angle setting as my eggs are quite large, every 180 mins. which is every 3 hours. This moves them 8 times a day, which I hope is plenty. The turner is working fine. I started out with one water well full and found the humidity went up to 70%! As it's the surface area that is important, I removed most of the water just leaving a couple of drops in the well and it still registered 60%. I removed ALL the water....not a drop in there, and it has now settled to a nice 40%, which it seems to be maintaining.

The room temp is fluctuating a little between 67-70F, but I have a reptile heat lamp which I am putting in the vicinity at night to try and maintain the 70F. We live in the soggy Pacific Northwest, so humidity tends to be rather high, possibly why I don't need any water in the 'bator?

I am concerned because I kept removing the lid to let the humidity out, which then dropped the temp about 3F each time, but it went back up to 99.5F within a minute...I might have messed up the eggs! I hope not! This is my first time....I was up until 3:30AM stressing about the humidity levels! Thanks to all of you who replied to my pleas for help last night!

So we're on Day 2 and counting

Hatch date should be April 14th!

 

[San]

Well it turned out that my bator wasn't ok

I lost my previous hatch they all died around day 19.

What happend??? Apparently the temp was not ok at the bottom of the bator. There was a difference from 4 degrees downside againg the upperside. I should be fixed now.
I set some new eggs, hatching should be around may 26 th.
I keep my fingers crossed!