My aquarium hopeful hatch

[Elmochook]

I want to start getting my mind wrapped around the incubation process and have come across the idea of an aquarium as a hatch home and i have one on hand so today is day 1 and i will try to hatch 6 eggs. I have marked the eggs with pencil to know if i have turned them and have them in a base of soft hay. Im using a 60 watt heat lamp with a flood light style bulb.
Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. I know this is not the ideal way to hatch but this is mostly for science so I'm going in expecting error.
How often do i need to hand turn them?

 

[JaeG]

At least three times a day - always an odd number of turns so that they aren't on the same side overnight as they were the previous night. Monitoring the temperature from the top of the egg is important as is monitoring the humidity. Track the air cell growth to make sure they are growing appropriately and adjust the humidity if necessary.

Our first quail were born in a fish tank incubator. Good luck! Keep us updated as to how it's going.

 

[Gray Farms]

Keeping the correct temp and humidity will be very tricky with this set up.

 

[Elmochook]

Keeping the correct temp and humidity will be very tricky with this set up.

Thank you. I'm aware of this. Any tips to help with humitidy?

 

[Elmochook]

I have a lazer temp gun and have my temp at about 93 which seems good?

 

[Elmochook]

They are between 93-95 degrees

 

[Gray Farms]

You'll need a hygrometer to measure the humidity. It should be around 40%-45% for chicken eggs. And 93 degree is far to low, you need a temp around 99.5-99.9 degree for chicken eggs.

 

[Mosey2003]

Chicken eggs should be within a half degree of 100. This is probably not going to go well, sadly.

 

[Elmochook]

Well i have read about many succesful hatches this way... Even a regular bulb in a shoe box but im not gonna cry if it fails.

I'm just testing theory and today is only day one so positive constructive tips are appreciated...negative comments not as much.

 

[Mosey2003]

I'm not trying to be negative, but you're probably not going to get them hatched if they don't get closer to 100 is all. 21 days is a long time to wait and be disappointed.