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Q: Incubating eggs, what temps, and how do you make home made incubator?
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Rosa [KCC-Rosalie]

I have corn snakes, and have just put my male in with my female, and dont have any way to incubate the eggs yet.  I was just looking for tips on temps, and that kind of thing, and how to make a home made incubator.  Any advice will be appreciated.  This is my first time attempting to breed!!


Points: 100
Topics: General Health , Heating , Incubation
Tags: Breeding, Cornsnake, Eggs, Incubator
Species: Other Colubrids > Other Colubrids > Elaphe guttata guttata
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Assisted Answer 1/7/2012 3:33:01 PM

slipnslide

hey theres many ways of making incubators easiest thing to do is google it or youtube it and watch how its done theres some pretty cheap ones out there to if you dont want to build one some of the incubators that you build end up being the price of a decent incubator for sale on ebay.. so its up to you whether u wanna build or buy, and theres some good ones for sale on ebay that have the thermostat then u can just keep an eye on and is a lot easier to control. 

 
Accepted Answer 1/7/2012 3:37:52 PM

FyreFocks

You don't really need one unless you want to have a good idea of when your eggs will hatch. Honestly, if there is a room in your home that never dips below 78 then you could put the eggs in perlite/hatch-rite/sphagnum moss/vermiculite inside a rubbermaid container and then wait it out.

Hovabators (chicken egg incubators) are cheap and they work well. I just picked up a second one today.

 
Assisted Answer 1/7/2012 3:39:04 PM

FyreFocks

To further expand though, I incubate at 86 degrees (+/- 1 degree) and I get hatches at around day 54. That is the highest temp I would allow the eggs to get to.

 
Assisted Answer 1/7/2012 7:41:59 PM

Tiki108

I second the hovabators, I have one and I also have one made by Exo Terra.  The hovabators work great for corn snake eggs, my exo terra is more for the ball pythons, but I've also heard great things about Zoo Med's incubator (I think it's called Reptibator?).  Honestly I've read about ways to build one out of an old fridge, but I think if you don't have tons of projects it might be cheaper to just go with a hovabator.

 
Assisted Answer 1/8/2012 12:22:10 AM

aaron

Hovabator FTW with cornsnake eggs. ... hana has done them in there and that's been enough.. they seem pretty hardy.

 
Assisted Answer 1/8/2012 12:22:58 AM

aSnakeLovinBabe
I incubate corns at the room temp of my snake room! It generally sits between 78 and 82.
 
Assisted Answer 1/8/2012 8:31:31 AM

JohnR
Last year I put my corn eggs n a Tupperware container with vermiculite and then all that inside one of my chondro cages that I keep at 84 degrees. Hatched no problem & no cost to me
 
Assisted Answer 1/8/2012 7:49:56 PM

Paul White

if yo have a fairly stable area that stays high 70s to low 80s I wouldn't worry aobut it. Colubrid eggs are easy :) if you want to feel more secure (i wouldn't blame you) I'd grab a hovabator or something and use it. You have 6 weeks or more so I wouldn't worry about it.

 
Assisted Answer 1/10/2012 6:22:15 AM

Louie

Im with snake lovin babe I put mine on a shelf in my 80degree snake room on vermiculite and had 46 of 46 hatch last summer and only lost 1.I prefer to let mine mate in spring when its a little warmer and temps are little more steady.Good luck.

 
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