Cheapest way of making an incubator out of foam boxes

[dougie210]

Hey guys,
Just wondering what is the cheapest way making an incubator for Bearded dragon and thick tailed gecko eggs, i have 3 of them foam boxes, and i am guessing 1 per incubator so what is the cheapest like way and how do you do it?

 

[dougie210]

As i have heard you can use water with heater and stuff which i am guessing is cheapest way?
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[Ned_fisch]

http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/...-to-building-a-cheap-and-ugly-incubator-69524

 

[mick w]

last season i used a foam box with 2 bricks in the bottom with a wire shelf sitting on the bricks under the shelf was filled with water with a aquarium heater in the water set at around 32 my containers sat on the wire shelf about 1inch above the water containers were stacked 2 high and i raised 212 eggs out of a possible 227 just had to make sure the water was topped up atleast once per week or so
as for the cost just the price of heater and containers and you only need a small heater as the volume water is quite small

 

[nos001]

i jusdt built my first incubator out of a foam box picked up from the local pet shop (live fish have to travel in something) for $2.00 2 house bricks inside with some wire selving out of a fridge on top of bricks fill with water till just under wire place water heater out of fish tank in water under wire place some containers on wire rack with vermiculite lid with some holes and cut a hole in lid with glass out of cheap photo frame in it.
hopefully it works

 

[mysnakesau]

Here is our first incubator. Foam box with timber outer "shell". Had sliding glass doors inside so that when I opened up the wooden door the glass doors protected the temps. I used a heatcord woven onto a 12inch square piece of bird wire, mounted to the roof. My container of eggs in their vermiculite sitting on tea candle holders.

We had the scrap timber & glass laying round the yard so the only expenses was the thermostat and accessories to go inside it. And of course my handy hubby wiring a powerpoint to the side for easy plug ins and a spot at the side there for the cords.

Only started breeding last season and first up we were lucky to score 100% hatch rate. But we didn't use the thermostat you see in the pic. We upgraded to a fancy, digital display that sounded alarms when the temps were out but it didn't happen very often.