Ok sorry one more post because I am catching up to you in replies and have to answer before I forget!!!
Brooder. You asked me what I use for a brooder? Ok I just use a big old tub from
Walmart lol depending on how many I am hatching that is the size I use. But when they are tiny tiny babies I will use a smaller size like I’m not sure how to describe this but it’s a grey Tupperware tub that you would store maybe some sweaters in for an attic? Lol? I line it with paper towels for first week and change as it gets dirty I keep it in the office where I work (at home) and I keep a heat lamp on it with a digital thermometer (first week only really) after that I remove the thermometer and just keep the light but I judge where they are going, are they too hot or too cold and then I adjust it, it’s gotten like second nature now the position of the clamp on heat lamp. I eye ball it after the 1st week. I do what they want me to do. I use a small bowl of food at first with ground up crumbles. Then move them over to larger crumbles and mix in smaller ones I ground up if I still have some left.
I use shavings 2nd week+ over paper towels. It makes for easy cleaning I just roll up the towels and toss the whole thing in the bin and replace.
Now if I have a lot of babies I move them to a much larger tub week 2. If not I might wait or just leave them in the smaller tub if it’s not too crowded. They all sleep together anyway, so long as they have room to run around and get away from each other.
I use a small glass bowl of marbles for the first week. I gradually remove some marbles. The marbles in glass attracts them and they always find the water because the pretty marbles lol.
First day I use bottle caps! Ha! I put like 2-3 bottle caps with water around the tub! I usually use those until day 2...
I also usually use bottled water because I can keep a bottle next to the brooder in my office and fill as needed. Same with a small bag of food.
So a big tub, small bowls, marbles, ground up gamebird feed if the crumbles you find are too large, paper towels, shavings second week onward, clamp on heat lamp... digital thermometer... cover
I make it sound like some huge operation it’s really not.
The cover that comes with the tub won’t be useful at first because they can’t jump that high. But as soon as you notice they are jumping you need the cover. I cut out the plastic center of the cover and I use screening instead, and then clamp the light back on. Problem solved. No getting out.
I don’t have many empty aquariums I do have 1 but it’s small. I told my husband we should have kept the biocube we had but we tossed it. Would have made a really cute brooder. I wish we had it now but it would have been super annoying to clean it, we had saltwater fish for like 8 years.
So yeah big plastic tubs on my office floor and let me tell you it’s distracting as anything to work and hear peeping and want to play with them!!!!! I made a cute video once it’s on YouTube it’s short because the rest of them wouldn’t go out the hole... I’ll post the link below lol I have other quail videos as well as sea monkeys and parrots.
Oh also as the get bigger I switch up food bowls to larger and larger and also the water same thing or I use a clip on water feeder. Like I said I just do what they dictate me to do. I’ve onlh lost one healthy baby and he got wedged somehow between the bowl and edge I’ve no idea what the heck happened and I was super sad I didn’t catch it in time.
I edited for typos
sorry i couldnt reply yest my family is sick w high fever 
we can see thru them. I have twin 2 yr olds an a 1yr old so theyll be able to safely veiw them. 
suposing yall have a 
still dead on 
