New Enclosure & Incubator

[playwell]

After moving 1000klms south in June with my partener & all our belongings & snakes + enclosures & having to find a new house,job (change of career) & all the other crap that goes with it, I did manage to fill in my spare time with:

*Building an outside enclosure for the Diamonds

*Find a Male Diamond (Thanks to Hugsta)

*Score a fridge and turn it into an incubator

*find the cash & time to do it
Well the cash fell a little short so the c/card got a workout :evil: & a new and demanding admin job consumed much of my time

Well, I did it!!

I scored the brand new fridge that had a bung compresser, for $0, "Brand new!" (Pats myself on the back :lol: )

I scored the aviary secondhand for $0 - but had to dig it out of a concrete base, lucky I used to be in the trades, and have the tools. Spend 2 days fixing it and putting it back together, .(Pats myself on the back again :lol: )
it was not in very good nick.

I put the finishing touches on today with the plastic plants in the aviary and the trimming around the double glazed viewing panel in the incubators door.

So what do you all think?

 

[playwell]

oh yeh I made the fridge magnets as well

 

[redline]

nice. what r u useing 2 heat up the fridge..

 

[playwell]

Heat cords are supported off the back via S/S 6mm eye screws, 2 light globes on the bottom with a PC fan on top and bottom to prevent hot spots.

 

[africancichlidau]

Bloody good job on the Aviary mate, bloody good job on the incubator mate, but where the hell is the pic of the Diamond??????

Seriously though, great job

 

[diamond_python]

but where the hell is the pic of the Diamond??????

I was thinking the same thing.

Awesome job mate.

 

[tessgalts]

well done

 

[playwell]

Ok here is the Male Diamond he is about 6'

 

[tessgalts]

nice diamond,you have done well..

 

[trader]

After moving 1000klms south in June with my partener & all our belongings & snakes + enclosures & having to find a new house,job (change of career) & all the other crap that goes with it, I did manage to fill in my spare time with: ......

Wow you must be exhausted yet very pleased with your accomplishments!
great aviary Playwell!!!! that is awesome! excellent incubator as well! and do you really make fridge magnets? if so what type? :wink:

 

[playwell]

Any pic you can put on a magnet, all the pics on the incubator are magnets that I made.
It is really easy.

 

[beknluke]

Very nice!!
And I love your lil viewing window on the fridge!! Very jealous!!

 

[playwell]

I am glad you guys like them, I put many hours work into each and am very satisfied by the results.

All I need to do now is to get the the big black buggers to breed, but if not so be it. :roll:

This summer is going to be a lot of fun with my new snakes & arrangment.


Cheers,
Craig

 

[pugsly]

Awesome work, I'm thinkin of doin the same with my diamonds, looks great!

 

[foxysnake]

WOW! Great work playwell! It all looks sweet (-inc diamond!). Stuffs me how you found the time to do it all though!!

 

[herptrader]

Very impressive.

We visited a friend a couple of weeks back that has an outdoor avery setup for his diamonds and has been successfully breeding them in there for years. I think he has a colony of 5 all housed together year round.

That is the cleanest looking fridge conversion I have seen. The viewing panel looks great. Is it a double glazed panel or just two separated sheets of glass?

Well done!!!

 

[Nixneuer]

Great enclosure , but the incubator/fridge is awesome well done with that

 

[playwell]

Very impressive.

That is the cleanest looking fridge conversion I have seen. The viewing panel looks great. Is it a double glazed panel or just two separated sheets of glass?

Well done!!!

Thank you V-much.

It is 2 sheets 10mm thick each with 15mm gap in between them, the front sheet has a few small holes in behind the caping to pevent humidy/water build up on the glass.

I have been test running it for about 2 weeks and adjusting the set up to get the most stable temps.

It is now ready for action, so it is all upto the snakies now

Thank you all for the kind remarks.

Cheers
Craig & Monica

 

[Glimmerman]

Love the incubator. I very much like the avairy also, unfortunately until I purchase my own dwelling such a fine construction is off my wish list.

Do you need a convertor for the PC fan? Curious on wiring etc. I am constructing a bar fridge and would like to add a mini fan or two.

Cheers

 

[playwell]

The PC fans are generlly 12V DC. Max input.

So you have a power board after your thermostat, wich you run all your heating & fans or what ever off.
(Be careful not to overload the thermostat.)

Off the same board you need to put a transformer for the 12 DC for the fans. I used a Dicksmith one I had lying around with 3,6,9,12 volt switch on it, so I can slow or speed up the fan for air/heat circulation depending on what worked best. (Testing over 2 weeks) I found that 9volts is perfect for even fast heating.

So in all I used:

*Lights
*Heat cord
*2 Fans
So off the one power board I have 3 seperate circuits that are controlled by the one thermostat.
This is the first incubator I have made so maybe I will change the set up with the next one I build.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. :wink: