Mold - advice needed please

sandesnow

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9 Years
Nov 20, 2013
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So - I did something stupid.

I was having issues with my Hovabator, set it up to run, then decided to buy two new incubators. Been running the new incubators for a couple months now. Working perfectly.
I got the brilliant (stupid) idea of putting my turner from my Hovabator (a manual one) into one of my new incubators.
I discovered I had forgotten to dump the water OUT of my old incubator. It was clean.. or so I thought..
The turner had mold on it. Cleaned it up really well, and put it into one of my new incubators.
My set was on the 9th.. Tuesday night I started noticing musty smell IN the incubator. (forced air incubator)
So.. as I have another incubator going, took out all the eggs and transfered them to the other incubator...
Now... I have beached everything... ran the incubator with the bleach solution (mix 50/50) in a container in it, to hopefully deal with anything in the fan area.. cleaned everything I can possibly think of in the incubator with a bleach solution..
Anything else I can do that can be done? Everything is drying currently. So mad at myself for not thinking.

Will I be stuck with this musty smell? And are my hatches all doomed with it? I am just hoping that was not 200+ dollars I just ruined.
 
I know Oxine is supposed to work as a gas, maybe run the incubator with that in the bottom and see if it won't do some magic on the fan? Running some bleach water in it for a few days may have done the trick too.

I'd take the motor off your turner and really dunk and swish it super well in some Dawn water, then rinse well and dunk it in bleach water.
 

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