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#HOMEMADE INCUBATOR COOLER HOW TO#

Stick the heat tape with the metal tape along the sides and bottom of the cooler.Attach the clamps or connector pieces to the heat tape.Use the drill to make a hole in the back or side of the cooler, just avoid hitting the fan and its mechanism.Determine how much heat tape is needed to cover the sides and bottom of the cooler with the measuring tape.Tighten the screws to attach the wires onto the socket. The WAVY wire goes on the SILVER screw, and the SMOOTH wire goes on the GOLD screw. Twist the open end of the white wire onto each of the gold and silver screws. Wipe down or clean the fridge-type cooler. Take the socket, and loosen the 2 screws.Stepsįollow the steps below to make a large incubator for leopard gecko eggs: If you want to be extra safe, consider wearing a mask as well to avoid accidental ingestion and inhalation. More importantly, don’t forget to wear a pair of safety glasses before you start drilling! Otherwise, you’ll have shards of metal flying into your eyes. You don’t need to buy a brand new beverage cooler for this, you could look up online listings that offer secondhand units.

Here are the materials for creating a large incubator for leopard gecko eggs: You can create your own large fridge-type incubator! Materials

#HOMEMADE INCUBATOR COOLER HOW TO#

Set the incubation temperature on the thermostat.Ī post shared by Sasha And Josephs Reptiles don’t worry, you don’t have to cash out thousands of dollars for one. How to hatch bearded dragon eggs (with pictures) ehow, How to hatch bearded dragon eggs.

Plug the thermostat into a power outlet.

You probably dont want to wait for 30-45 minutes to get to the target temp after open the incubator. It best to have little higher wattage so the heat can get there faster.

Connect the heat tape to the on/off thermostat. I would go with standard socket so you can change the bulb wattage as need.

Lay the sheet of hardboard on top of the water bottles.

Place a couple of bottled water at the bottom of the cooler.

Cover the cooler’s drainage hole with some insulating foam to prevent heat from escaping.

Insert the thermostat probes inside the box through the cooler’s drainage holes.

Stick the heat tape to the four walls of the cooler for even heating.

Wrap the clamps with electric tape for insulation-no wire should be left exposed.

Attach the clamp to the heat tape with pliers.

Stepsįollow the steps below to make a medium incubator for leopard gecko eggs: If you want to skip the electrical works, you can also buy heat tapes with the wiring already fixed like this one on Reptile Basics Inc. So it's worth considering combining those with more advanced features in the other two. However, it has some excellent features such as the pebbles to sustain temperature. It had a very poor hatch rate: only one of the eggs hatched.

Here are the materials for creating a medium incubator for leopard gecko eggs: This is the most basic of the homemade incubators I've featured here. A post shared by Wild Creek Homestead if you have a sizable collection of leopard geckos with different morphs and you want to get into breeding them as a personal project, this DIY medium-sized incubator will work.