Thanks. Anyone have special plans for the holiday weekend?
Tomorrow I have a practice to see if our "womens team" has enough people to put together a Model T at the state fair in a few weeks. I have never put together any car before, so it will be fun learning. Not sure if the team has enough people of a "running and lifting age" since many members are seniors.
With all the overthinking, why didn't I think to do a dry run? Well, a wet run, but eggless? Be right back...
OK, so... Since this is an older Octagon 10 (2001, I think Walnut said?) there aren't actually any channels. The wells are in the end of the tray that comes out first (it's a side-loader), so you don't have to pull it out far to add water. For the dry run, I just took the tray to the sink and used the faucet to fill one of the two wells to the top (I'll need to find something else to use when I'm actually using the incubator, I know)--since the wells are next to each other, the first tilt will pour the excess into the empty one. After tilting to the first slanted face and putting everything back flat, I've determined that the wells won't overflow as long as the water is 1/4 inch below the top. Tilted it the other way, just to be sure. Yep, dry under the tray
Before I pulled the tray out and filled the well, I put the Octagon onto its vertical faces. That would make eggs sitting upright in the tray fully horizontal--that feels like too big of a change to me, for a turn. I seem to remember reading somewhere that you want the full range of motion to cover 90 degrees, and traversing from one vertical face to the other would give you 180--even if it does take 4 turning sessions to get there (if you skip the bottom--5 if you don't). Once I actually saw what it looked like turned that far, I felt dumb for not being able to quite visualize that.
I'll have to do a dry run with humidity levels later--my current dual thermometer/hygrometer is in a housing that's larger than the tray
When I'd bought it, I was going for supplies for an emergency cooler 'bator, in case Frieda abandoned this clutch as she had the last (due to being ages before I got her eggs), so I was going for inexpensive and ability to use elsewhere as well as accuracy (did both the ice water and the salt test, and, while I don't remember how much it was off, it was something like >3 degrees and >5%).
Sounds good. I know it wasn't easy, but look at the meal you will have!
I had to hook up the humidity pump. Wouldn't stay above 55% without it. I tried just using the card, and wetting it myself, and it worked, but dried out too quickly. But the pump is keeping it on my set amount of 72% perfectly now. I'm not really sure what setting to go with, if its going to keep it that accurately, so comments are welcome!
This weekend, my hubbys sister and her family are visiting. They brought their camper so my yard looks like a campground, but its awesome. She's the one that started me on these animals anyway. I'd love it if she would see one hatch in the Brinsea!
So we are sitting outside, enjoying a lovely evening. (of course I had to come check the incubator again lol)
Hey, you shipped those eggs to my state! I'm glad to see there are other folks in my state with good taste. And are crazy enough to incubate this late like me.
Sounds good. I know it wasn't easy, but look at the meal you will have!
I had to hook up the humidity pump. Wouldn't stay above 55% without it. I tried just using the card, and wetting it myself, and it worked, but dried out too quickly. But the pump is keeping it on my set amount of 72% perfectly now. I'm not really sure what setting to go with, if its going to keep it that accurately, so comments are welcome!
This weekend, my hubbys sister and her family are visiting. They brought their camper so my yard looks like a campground, but its awesome. She's the one that started me on these animals anyway. I'd love it if she would see one hatch in the Brinsea!
So we are sitting outside, enjoying a lovely evening. (of course I had to come check the incubator again lol)
It was super dry when I hatched, so I had both channels half-filled and a wet paper towel between them - the pump still had to work harder than I liked! Kept mine at 72% also, and kept a spray bottle next to the incubator so I spritzed the pad every time I opened it to get it to recover faster. Make sure you prime the tubing or the water takes forever to get there!
Hey, you shipped those eggs to my state! I'm glad to see there are other folks in my state with good taste. And are crazy enough to incubate this late like me.
Sounds good. I know it wasn't easy, but look at the meal you will have!
I had to hook up the humidity pump. Wouldn't stay above 55% without it. I tried just using the card, and wetting it myself, and it worked, but dried out too quickly. But the pump is keeping it on my set amount of 72% perfectly now. I'm not really sure what setting to go with, if its going to keep it that accurately, so comments are welcome!
This weekend, my hubbys sister and her family are visiting. They brought their camper so my yard looks like a campground, but its awesome. She's the one that started me on these animals anyway. I'd love it if she would see one hatch in the Brinsea!
So we are sitting outside, enjoying a lovely evening. (of course I had to come check the incubator again lol)
It was super dry when I hatched, so I had both channels half-filled and a wet paper towel between them - the pump still had to work harder than I liked! Kept mine at 72% also, and kept a spray bottle next to the incubator so I spritzed the pad every time I opened it to get it to recover faster. Make sure you prime the tubing or the water takes forever to get there!
I thought it was you that mentioned priming it, so I figured that out! Seems to be working fine. Thanks for the 72 confirmation too, that makes me feel better. I'll get out a spray bottle too.
"Cheers" back!
