incubator

[wildlifewarrior]

it's best to out with a proper one as getting eggs to hatch is not easy for a novice and if you have a reliable incubator then if your eggs fail you know it is not down to the incubator....plus it's best make sure you ahve everything right to start off with. i have havabators which i have hatched laod sof eggs out of and there great...i how ever do use homemade fridge ones but i think you need to know how your method of egg raising works before you customize a incubator to your requirements. the fish tank incubator is a good one to use if your ever caught short and have little time and cash..

[sandy]

Sorry to disagree here Christian, my first ever eggs I hatched were in an airing cupboard,
and I was a complete novice then. I had no idea then how to hatch the eggs, and nobody to
ask, as computers were only just getting into common use then.
And if anyone gets a sudden clutch of eggs I would recommend this for an emergency place, until an incubator was accquired.

[wildlifewarrior]

well i would eb buggered then as we don't have a airing cuoboard....i nrever said homemade ones were not good.....my first incubator was a brick in a fish tank with water around it and a fish heater. from that i hatched over 40 eggs. it was a brillant little thing but when considering a homemade one that could go wrong and a properly built one i think it's much better to go with a built one. as a few member son here know andas i have said i use home made ones now which are converted fridges.

so ther eis nothing wrong with homemade oens but if it's your very first time and you don't know what your doing then it's best to get as much right as you can or it's pretty much pot luck, and you don't wanna be guessing if your doing ok when life is involved.....kind alike a PC...you buy a pc and sue one before you ever build oen your self. that way you know it's works correctly/

[70ridgeway]

thans everyone

[sandy]

I agree with you Christian about hovabators etc being good, but they dont come cheap. Which
is one reason for getting my husband to make me one<g>. It does help he is an electronics
engineer. But I would still say an aircupboard for those who have them, will work, but not the
best.
I suppose all could try freecycle, if you dont ask you dont get<g>.

[sarah]

I use hovabators only because Darren has had great results from them.

I got one of mine off a classified site for £35

I did look into building one and it cost the same as buying one.

[70ridgeway]

your to blame sarah going in to this tortoise thing big just in to the process of moving all my sons things out of his room going to ikea the weekend to get a few more bookcases so i can turn them in to tables what you done to me, when ive finished you will have to pop round and have a look tell me what you think measure sons room should get quite a few tables 2 maybe 3 high gonna get a couple of them heaters for in there surpose gives me something to do

[janeL]

I was just browsing ebay and the hovabators are forsale from the US for about £22! It doesn't give a postage cost but it might be worth emailing and finding out. Obviously the plug would need a converter too but they are only a couple of quid. Here is the link...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hovabator-Ther...dZp1638Q2em122

[janeL]

Do you know, as i pressed submitt, I thought I bet it is more techinical than this in a way that would go over my head!!! thanks stells!!

[alicia]

lol @ JaneL.


just out of interest how do you make an incubator?

and you know the aircupboard method, what temps does it have to be for a tortoise to hatch?
or any egg really?



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