Any easy ways or idea‘s how to make an home made Incubation for my leopard gecko‘s egg?? She hasn‘t had them yet but she is showing signs of pregnancie. Any one help me out???Thanks alot, Linden
here's what you do. You buy some flex watt and you also buy a cheap theromstat from a pet store and hook the flex watt to the thermostat. You connect the flex watt to a plastic container. Since the thermostat will probably be cheap, you will have to have a digital thermometer to calibrate the thermostat. and there, you have a cheap incubator
use a low wattage globe(25W). put it under a steel baking tray/dish in the bottom of your enclosure, cover the tray with sand and stones. plug the lights cord into a dimmer switch so it can be turned up or down to adjust the temperature. I must warn you about electricity and fire hazards. No water around electricity and no flammable materials around any heat source.
the CHEAPEST way to go about it is to fill a styrofam box with some vermiculite, then, with a sharpie, mark all your eggs. (so that you know which way is up) then, CAREFULLY transfer the eggs into the styrofoam, marked side up, so the embryos don't dislodge or whatever, then put them on an electrical heating pad. the kind you get at the drug store for about 20 bucks. it's like getting flexwatt and a rheo all in one! just make sure you get a sorta crappy cheap kind, since the good kind has an automatic shut off after a few hours, and you're gonna want this one turned on all the time for a bout a month. while you're at the store, grab a thermometer, (also found cheap at the drug store) and set it up to the desired temperature ( a poke around the internet will give you the right numbers for temps, and sexing) then it's just a matter of adding towels, or whichever to block and/or insulat heat.
