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Eggs in Incubator

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xzcarloszx

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Hi i have 4 adult corns 2 males and 2 females housed in there own vivs. I want to breed them, i hear roughly they lay about 20 eggs each. Was wondering if 40 eggs would fit into a Hova-Bator Incubator 18" x 18"x 7.5", 110V, 25.3 Watt?????
 
xzcarloszx said:
Hi i have 4 adult corns 2 males and 2 females housed in there own vivs. I want to breed them, i hear roughly they lay about 20 eggs each. Was wondering if 40 eggs would fit into a Hova-Bator Incubator 18" x 18"x 7.5", 110V, 25.3 Watt?????
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Yes you should have plenty of room for 40+ eggs. Just make sure the egg bins will fit. You can split the clutches into smaller sizes. You can easily fit 4 smaller bins in the HovaBator and have 10+ eggs in each bin.
Jay & PJ :cool:
 
I would have had a hard time fitting 40 in there. My female laid 21 and the egg container fit in there but there was no room for any more of them. I'm not using it this year. I'm just going to room temp incubate with the eggs in a styrofoam box to avoid temp spikes.
 
Meg,
Do you completely separate your eggs? We leave them in clumps and we usually have no problem putting 10 eggs in a small bin full of sphagnum. Then we can fit 4-6 egg bins in a HavaBator. We did it last year with 3 separate clutches. One clutch had 20 eggs and the other two had 14 and 9 and we fit them in, not much room to spare but we were even able to keep a spray bottle in there as well so we could spray the clutches down with up to temp water so it wouldn't shock the eggs. We did separate the clutches somewhat (we had a couple straggler eggs that didn't adhere to the other eggs in the bigger clutch) but for the most part they were in masses. Even doing it this way, we had about a 99% hatch rate. the others were unfertile and started to rot and were removed from the bins as best as possible. I started to rethink my last post on another thread and I know we had only used one of our two HavaBators for our incubation this year. I could see only getting 20 eggs or so in there if you had completely separated each egg and placed them individually in their egg bin. I have also noticed that with more bins in there we didn't have to spray them down that often as more bins seemed to keep the humidity levels up high. We use a external digital hygro/thermo with 2 seperate probes for each function to keep accurate reading on the two measurments.
Jay & PJ :cool:
 
Mine was in a clump but it was spread out with some stacked on top. I like to make sure the eggs aren't touching the sides of the egg container so I ended up with a rectangular holder. It took up most of the space and if I tried to put one on top, I couldn't close the lid. I put a lid on my egg boxes, the eggs were in Perlite with a light moss covering to keep the ones sticking out on top moist. I occsionally sprayed the moss and I occasionally added water to the perlite. Like I said though. This year I'm going to room temp them. I held 6 clutches for Stephen at my house in a styrofoam box and they all hatched out fine. It's a lot easier and I can just leave it stacked in my snake room.
 
Meg,
What do you keep your room temps at? We live in Maine and even in the summer the temperature fluctuations can be extreme. One day it will be sunny and 90 degrees and the next be rainy and overcast and be 70 degrees. How do you maintain your heat level in the styrofoam cooler? Can you post some pictures of how you set this up? If you have some variances in your temps throughout incubation does it take longer for them to hatch and do you get bigger babies from the longer incubation times?
Jay & PJ :cool:
 
My house pretty much stays around 80/81 in the summer when I have eggs. I used the hovabator last year, but Stephen used a large styrofoam box-the kind that vets get drugs shipped in. The walls are about 2 inches thick. The box itself was about 2 1/2 ft. long by 1 1/2 ft. wide I guess and maybe a foot and half deep. It held the 6 egg containers easily with the lid in place. My house doesn't vary in temperature much as we keep the air on all the time so it maintains 81 pretty well. Winter time it's much cooler. The heat doesn't kick on until the temperature drops to around 60, which is fine as I am brumating then. In the closet where I keep them, the temps stay around 57. Corns eggs are much more sensitive to heat than cooler temps. You're safer incubating at lower temps longer than higher temperatures. It took about 64 days for mine to hatch at 81 degrees.
 
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