need instruction on fish tank incubation .. hepl please
Wood, cardboard, or foam ice chests are better incubators than glass.
I have never used a fish tank for an incubator, but I do use one for a brooder.
By Rokimoto on Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 11:43 am:
Lyon Electric sells parts, you can look them up on the net. Other people have posted web sites with instructions on building your own incubator, but you may want to buy one already made. Hovabators will probably do as well as anything that you could build for the same price.
I can't really recommend it but the first incubator that I ever made was an aquarium that I insulated with newspaper and foil on three sides with a bowl of water for humidity and a 60 watt light bulb in a socket connected to a dimmer switch. It was a continuous dimmer switch and not the one with specific settings. I adjusted the temperature by turning the dimmer switch up or down. The room you have this type of incubator in has to maintain an even temperature or the incubator temperature will fluctuate with the room temperature. It wasn't a very good system, but I did manage to hatch 4 out of six eggs that I set in it. I immediately made a plywood incubator with all the fixings, fan, 250 watt heat source, dual thermostats etc., but while the aquarium incubator only cost me around 15 dollars in new materials, the new homemade incubator cost me over $130.00 in materials. You can probably get a decent Hovabator for around 80-100 dollars.
By Anonymous on Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 06:49 pm: