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Me and my wife has another 2years or so before we try our first breeding season.im gathering up as much information has i can on breeding and i came across the zoo med incubator? Has anyone try it before? Not too much info on it well, i cant find it. Whats your opinions on it? its pretty cheap from others running $600+ so im if-e on it personally but maybe yous can shred some light.
 
Basically, the Reptibator is an upscale Hova-Bator with better temperature control. Whether it will be a good choice really depends on your needs. If you're only going to incubate one or two clutches at a time, and have a fairly stable room environment (this will be less of a factor than with the Hova-Bator, but it is still a part of ZooMed's recommendations for the Reptibator, it will be okay. If you plan on more, you're better off with something bigger. There are a variety of DIY incubators that can be set up inexpensively - with the most costly piece being the thermostat.
 
Thanks for info hhmoore, we are going to start off with only 3 females and take our times understanding thr breeding cylces and so forth. So hopefully 3 clutches to start with.
 
My brother gave me a reptibator at my wedding (as a gag, knowing we both like snakes).
It is small so you will only be able to fit a couple clutches inside (most of my snakes will be breeding size this winter so I will upgrade soon).
It will be handy if I have tortoise eggs that I want to cook at a slightly different temp.

There are a couple things I did that helped make it work well for me:
The temp and humidity sensors are at the top near the heating coil so when you use an egg chamber the readout on those is not accurate at all.
I used two probe type thermometers and a probe type humidity gauge to monitor conditions inside the egg box. The thermometers were pretested to verify accuracy.
I incubated and hatched woma eggs in it this spring.
To keep things from being too wet I opened the egg box once a week to let fresh air in.
 
Ive used two reptibators the last two years and they work pretty well. External temperature is the main thing you have to worry about but as long as you keep an eye on it and adjust the temperature accordingly they work great.
 
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