04-12-2014, 03:32 AM
(04-11-2014, 02:20 PM)Catherine Wrote: Using a tank for an incubator might be safer. My egg laying set up is a nest box in a twenty gal. tank. I have a small blue light over it and it holds pretty steady temperature and humidity. I have it in a draft free area where the temperature is fairly stable.
You can use a cracked or damaged tank. It is good enough and you could make some kind of lid that holds temp and humidity. It could be adjustable. Keep working on it. You will get it right by the time you have eggs.
Your meal worms will start multiplying right away. Remember to give them some carrot or apple peal. That will give them moisture. Is the shoe box card board? I would watch out in case they eat their way out of the box. That could get messy.
It's a Rubbermaid plastic shoe box with holes in the lid. I've been giving them carrots every other day and taking the old ones out so they don't mold and get them sick. As soon as I see any of the pupates I take them out of the feeding bowl and put them in the shoe box. I used to just throw them out but when you have over 10 change in a week it just seems like a waste. so I let them live and figured now is as good a time as any to try my hand at breeding them. I have a few friends that I could sell to if there are too many. And I'm sure there will be too many.
I feel like I'm so close with the incubator. I'm about to start working on it now. I should know later today if the mat idea works. My biggest problem is the humidity sky rocketing too high. the temperature stays at 90 which isn't bad I could get boys but I want girls so I need it at 80.
