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Hatching
- May 10, 2025
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Sorry if this has been asked but I couldn’t find much on it. I’m wanting to make a styrofoam Hatcher and use the plant heater mats in it since I have one. My intention is to ONLY use it as a Hatcher to keep my incubator cleaner and be able to handle different egg sets without 5 different incubators.
I was wondering about using yhe plant warming mat with the digital probe plug and play thermostat you get for them. The mat easily heats my container to appropriate temps but my thermostat is dead so thought I would get advice before I buy the next one. And I like the idea of the WiFi and being able to monitor from afar while I’m working so tempted to splurge for the $30-50 one.
However - do these have too wide of a temperature swing? I was looking at inkbird Vivosun and BNLink. Most seem to have a +- 2F accuracy they say. But that could possibly result in several degree swing granted it will be slow. Will this be ok for a Hatcher only? Would biting the bullet and wiring a wafer or water heater thermostat be better? I’ll still use auxiliary thermometers inside.
Thanks for any thoughts. Or am I crazy and should just buy an out of the box simple incubator as a Hatcher? I prefer having things I can use elsewhere when not needed in the Hatcher - redundancy and reuse.
I was wondering about using yhe plant warming mat with the digital probe plug and play thermostat you get for them. The mat easily heats my container to appropriate temps but my thermostat is dead so thought I would get advice before I buy the next one. And I like the idea of the WiFi and being able to monitor from afar while I’m working so tempted to splurge for the $30-50 one.
However - do these have too wide of a temperature swing? I was looking at inkbird Vivosun and BNLink. Most seem to have a +- 2F accuracy they say. But that could possibly result in several degree swing granted it will be slow. Will this be ok for a Hatcher only? Would biting the bullet and wiring a wafer or water heater thermostat be better? I’ll still use auxiliary thermometers inside.
Thanks for any thoughts. Or am I crazy and should just buy an out of the box simple incubator as a Hatcher? I prefer having things I can use elsewhere when not needed in the Hatcher - redundancy and reuse.
