Tips for cleaning your styrofoam incubator?

[Julie08]

you can get it at a grocery store or at Walmart pretty much everywhere like that..... Its super cheap like about 3 bucks will do 5 hatches or so.

 

[Avonshire]

What department would it be in???

 

[gabrielle1976]

Possibly the one with foil wrap and plastic wrap or the bakeing isle if there seprate from the wraps. I used the cuboard / dware lineing stuff for one hatch I got a roll of it at the doller store in the kitchen isle .

 

[lynn1961]

You can also use paper towels in the bottom of the tray, just line the water wells and the other areas with napkins or paper towels, also use the paper towels on top of the wire, put the eggs on the paper towel lined wire, when your hatch is done, roll the paper towels up and throw away, no more toothbrush needed to get the egg and eggshell bits and pieces off of the styrofoam. spay down with diluted bleach water, rinse and let air dry. also use lysol or pinesol to clean it with.

 

[mstricer]

What department would it be in???

At Walmart, your guess is as good as any. As soon as you think you've found it. They will move it.

 

[Dogon1400]

Dish soap

 

[buzzer]

Has anyone tried simple green?

 

[Summerchick16]

How do you clean yours? I have tried washing it out and now I have it sitting in bleach spray(I hope this is ok). I was thinking about sitting it out in the sun to dry after rinsing the bleach off of it. I am having trouble getting the bits of stuff off the wire mesh that the eggs sat on. Thank you for your help!!

HI there,
I have a little giant incubator and we just finished cleaning and sanitizing it and wanted to set it up for the next batch but when we plugged it in the humidity keeps being in the 70 and 80% range and I don't know how to get it down for the new eggs

 

[CaradineCousins]

I would spray the top well with a bleach solution and then put both parts outside to air out for a while. If the odor doesn't go away, I would try another bleach soak. Bacteria causes odors so you need to make sure to get it really well disinfected.

 

[CaradineCousins]

I read somewhere about putting puppy pads in the bottom to catch the mess I’m planning on that when I go to lockdown stage. Hope it works better than paper towels