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Inquiry: Nature's Spirit Incubators performance at low house temps?

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I'm in need of a fairly large incubator this year (hopefully, anyway) and I've been eyeballing the Nature's Spirit incubators for a while. I've done some research and I've heard that their incubators could have trouble maintaining temps at low ambient temperatures?

My concern is that I've just moved from Georgia to North Dakota, where we regularly experience below zero temperatures in winter and so my house thermostat is set between 60-65. Could a Nature's Spirit incubator maintain a temperature of 90F (for ball python eggs) at such a house ambient temperature? I did have to lower the temperature of my two racks to the mid-80s simply because the flexwatt couldn't keep up, so I'm a bit concerned about the insulation value of the plexiglass and plastic used in the incubator.

I have heard of people using large coolers for incubators, but being time and tool-limited, I'd rather use something tried, trusted, and proven, and Nature's Spirit incubators seem to have really good reputations.

Thanks ahead of time!
 
I hear you on the way colder temps than we're used to. I can't offer an incubator suggestion as I'm using a big cooler I rigged up, but can say that I've had some decent success with heating just the room the snakes are in with a small space heater. I had the same issues with my flexwatt, and finally caved and started heating the room. I keep my house at 65, snakes are nice and toasty at 80 ambient. I've got the cooler in there, and temps are steady, for what that's worth.

Wanted to toss it out there, in case it might be an option for you. Good luck!
 
Yeah, unfortunately I don't really have the option of just heating a room. I'm renting a fairly small 2 bedroom duplex and both bedrooms are occupied. I've got the snakes right now in the warmest part of the house directly against the inner wall (which is heated from the opposite side by my neighbor). This happens to be in my living room right next to my thermostat. Downstairs is just one giant unfinished basement with way too much open space to be heated via space heater. If I owned the place you better believe I would install some false walls for a reptile room down there, but I simply don't have that option.

I suppose worse comes to worse I could rig a big cooler with some flexwatt and a thermostat, but it would be nice to have something professional for once. I finally invested in some decent racks and boy, what a difference it makes!
 
This is a bump to hopefully get some more attention? I do have another question though. I have leftover 1" insulation from receiving frozen rodents in the mail that should be enough to cover the outside of the incubator. Has anyone ever tried to do this? If so, did the extra insulation help the incubator maintain a constant temperature at low ambient temps?
 
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