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Have been doing a way better job of controlling humidity this time around. This is how its setup. Tube through the top vent hole goes into smallest well under the eggs. Tube in the side goes into the styro egg cartons.
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I use glad food container for humidity in the styro bators:
Each one will raise humidity 5 to 10%. Sometimes I use one and sometimes I use two. They fit tilted on one side of the turner rail.
Ok, I'm going to jump in and post a few pics. My humidity was down to 27%. I didn't want to fill the well, I just need a little humidity, so I found a salt/pepper shaker. Its square, so it fits between my rails perfectly!
Here's the Brinsea with the pump.
hadly workin today I see! add it in single dishes or those little cups that fit in a turner slot. or use the bigger half of a plastic easter eggs in the egg slots fill as many as needed, you can take out if toomuchQuote:
Originally Posted by Chaos18
I'm hard at work either that or hardly working........bator temps have been good. Humidity has been kinda iffy.....add water humidity gets to high, don't add water and humidity gets to low.
look at this cool idea I saw on Reddit!
Brinsea Advance Incubator Humidity Pumps click HEREFlow control valve!! thats what they are called took me that long to remember it!!
Originally Posted by Akrnaf2
A tip how to rase the humitiy in your DIY bator:
In my new DIY I have fixed 2 water reservoirs wich have an alouminum pipe that stick out of them through
The bator lid, to replenish water withaout openinig the lid.
Yesterday they enterted to lockdown an i had some low humidity problems.
The only thing that fixed the problem was an Aquarium pump that I conected to one of The pipes. This pump enters air to the water and the bubbles raised the humidity!
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Chicken Canoe small aquarium air pump to push ambient air into my big cabinet.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23906223
The holders for the pudding cups (and eggs) are just pvc covered drawer organizers I got at dollar tree last year. Three of the long, narrow size just happen to fit across the top of the incubator. I use the other two sizes for stacking eggs to maximize egg holding capacity. I already had a bunch of washed pudding cups to water marble my nails. They just happened to be the right fit in the trays AND the chicks can't fall into them and drown.
PVC racks.
Stacked with pudding cups for lockdown.
Stacked with eggs at start of hatch.
I also use wire stationary racks to stack the eggs to get more eggs in...although that can be a bit hairy (and scary)
or to hold my pudding cups to increase humidity. Some of the eggs in red had damaged air cells so they've been upright in that rack the whole incubation. They hatch this weekend.
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just love them!! can you sex them? Thank you!!
