hello everyone you don't remember me my
name is Johnny
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sigh and today we're going to be talking
to you about incubators I have with me
here
a wreck you may take a vet to Bader the
one and only wreck debater if you want
to know how to have great incubation be
amazing at incubator if you want to be
amazing at incubating stick along
because we have an episode for you
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down ok nice first let's talk about the
rep debater this is an incubator that
gets me excited it shows you the
temperature so that's what I really like
about this one over some of the other
other Bader's like what I really didn't
like about it is it has all these holes
that allow moisture to come out so
there's a hole right here there's a hole
right here there's a hole all around it
at the bottom of it there were all these
other holes too so you try filling it
with water and all the water would just
come and spill out the holes out the
bottom and we don't want that right out
of the box to me a rep debater is not
the best once it's modified it works
beautifully ok so I went to the dollar
store and I got some glue and I just
filled these holes with the glue you
just take the glue gun you fill the
holes around the side and I left one
hole here and I'll show you why in a bit
and then same thing I just took glue and
I glued up all the holes from the inside
and the outside so no water gets out of
it so I can actually take water pour it
in here a little bit past the ridges and
then put the sponge down and it works
perfectly I usually like to have two
incubators why why would you have two
well it's funny that you asked charlie
I like to use this incubator as my
starter incubator for leopard geckos
leopard geckos sexes are determined by
the temperature that they are incubated
at so I keep this incubator running at
about 82 degrees Fahrenheit and I leave
the leopard gecko eggs in there for 22
days at 22 days the sex is determined
and then I can move them into my next
incubator for this has been a great
wonderful incubator to have the leopard
gecko eggs there also to have the option
of incubating or clutch of eggs at two
different temperatures to see what
happens
so pretty soon we're gonna have some
super dwarf Rettig eggs coming and I'm
going to be incubating about half of
them are around 80 to 83 degrees the
other half and my other incubator that's
usually around 88 to 90 degrees to see
if we get different results with sizes
of the babies the colors of the babies
so far as long as an egg has not been
infertile we've had pretty perfect
success so as I showed you earlier I
left this one hole without glue in it
let's say this is full of leopard gecko
eggs I have a thermometer inside it and
then I'll run the cord through that
little hole then I'll put the lid on the
incubator because you never know with
these things with the temperature you
can never be too safe so I'll adjust the
temperature on this rep debater
to make sure that the temperature is
right on the thermometer so if I see
that this temperature is off from this
one this tells
what the temperature is inside with the
eggs which is where it matters the most
so always have two thermometers just to
make sure everything is perfect have you
had anything ever go wrong with
incubating yes it's a really sad story
the first clutch of eggs that I ever got
didn't do well because my incubation was
off
I wasn't controlling the temperatures
properly I tried to make a little
incubator water heater inside a cooler I
didn't have great results I lost my
first clutch of eggs so that's why I'm
sharing with you what has worked for me
so this is great starter option
especially after you've done two
modifications you shouldn't have any
problems and should work perfectly for
you now we're going to talk about more
of a homemade incubator in a fridge that
works wonderful that was wonderful
so now let's move on to the next
accumulator incubate incubator okay very
good I have it hooked up to a thermostat
that is keeping the temperature at
around 88 degrees Fahrenheit so oh my
goodness just a second that was a wet
one that was not wet it was me okay
anyways
so with this incubator it's a lot bigger
there's a lot more space it's wonderful
you just put stuff in it
the temperature seems to stay right on
and everything's great say I took a lip
so everyone so right above Calypso I
have my rep debater the eggs go in it
for their twenty two days and then they
get moved to the big one whoever thought
incubating could be so exciting don't
you think it's exciting Calypso not even
Calypso doesn't care okay let's take a
look inside what are all those water
bottles doing in there
you don't drink water warm like that
that's right I wondered that myself when
I first got into incue bation name but I
first got into incubating incubation
what is really interesting about these
incubators is they don't have water at
the bottom like these incubators so
Charlie imagine that there's eggs in
there and they're all at a beautiful
temperature then I open up this door
what happens you let out all the hair
the air yes you let out all the air
wonderful so can you take a guess why
having a whole pile of water bottles
with water in them could be useful what
does that do keeps the moisture in does
that I guess some moisture I don't know
okay so what do you think the answer is
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unpause okay back to the video welcome
back everyone so the answer is that the
water in these water bottles they stay
at 88 degrees and then when this opens
up and lets out hot air then when we
close this it comes back to the
temperature easier it's almost as if
they act like ice cubes
keeping your water cool they give the
opposite I open the incubator and the
hot air all goes out because they're a
little bit warmer when it's closed Wow
then it gets all nice that's using your
head for more than a hot rap just cuz
you stayed with us this far we're gonna
give you a bonus tip okay what's the
bonus tip how to make your own sim
containers if you guys know what a sim
container is it's a plastic container
that has a tray with water in it and
then you can put your eggs in it and
it's wonderful the thing is they're
about like 20 30 bucks or something I'm
not really sure but they're they're a
decent amount for a plastic container so
now what you can do is go to the dollar
store and buy a plastic bin I like to
make my own little temperature display
things for each one of my incubation
containers the bin is three dollars this
this is about a buck fifty or a dollar
or something and then these are about
ten bucks so to have upgraded sim tray
cost you like 15 bucks half the price of
an actual one so you can find all sorts
of wonderful thing at the dollar store
I like these jumbo flyswatter
Plus so I saved these especially for you
just to show you how you could do it
yourself so now not only is this an
incubator video but it's also a video
about making your own incubation trays
so dollar store here we go
three dollars get this bin you close it
it's not airtight you don't even have to
really put holes in it you fill it with
vermiculite and then you can wet the
vermiculite at like a one-to-one ratio
or you just play with it until you
squeeze it and the ton of water doesn't
come pouring out of it
get it but if you want to weigh it you
could weigh the vermiculite and put the
same amount of weight in water or a bit
more mix it all up then what you can do
is you take this jumble fly swatter that
is only a dollar twenty-five a pair of
scissors and you just cut it I was
saving this just for you
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whenever I go into dollar store and I
buy these flyswatters it look at me
funny two of them and then you place
that down under vermiculite this creates
my own little ghetto sin tray you can
take these flyswatter things or anything
that's like a grid and turn it into your
own little sim tray and that'll save you
a lot of money you'll get great results
I don't bury my eggs in vermiculite
anymore I did that maybe the first year
Taylor doing it this way simulates the
sim tray and as much cheaper works tried
and tested I hope you really enjoyed
this video on incubation I sure did
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