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Incubation Inquisition

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It is theoretically possible to incubate an egg in any container that will not be degraded by the process of incubation (such as cardboard molding or falling apart) as long as proper temperature and humidity is observed and maintained. This has led to resourceful uses of coolers, refrigerators, and even entire rooms.
I haven't built an incubator, but am planning to within the year for future breeding projects. As a college student, space is rather limited and an incubator design that incorporates the furniture already in or what would be brought to my apartment is the most viable solution. I am considering using the lowest rack in a 5 tub plastic rack as my incubator and am wondering what input anyone may have regarding this. I know that uniform heating is necessary and plan to have heat tape run along the bottom of the tub. As for humidity and substrate, I am going to use vermiculite and humidity shouldn't be too much of an issue. The tubs are 23 1/8" long, 16" wide 6 3/8" tall Sterilite tubs, and I plan on dividing the incubator tub into four sections.
What about you guys and gals:
If you have made a home-made incubator, what materials did you use and how effective has it been?
If you could have built it out of any materials, what would you have used?
If you haven't built an incubator, do you have any plans to do so?
 
do with a small dorm fridge. You can find them on Craigs List broken sometimes for next to nothing. You dont need it to actually function you just need the insulation. Then your looking at a good controller is atleast 60.00 (Ranco Controller). You will need a couple feet of heat tape (10.00) and a smalle computer fan (frys electronics 5.00) This style works great I have had one this size as well as one that is the size of a commercial gas station display cooler. They both work great and have hatched many clutches out of both of them.
 
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