my "high-end" incubator

[reverendsterlin]

lol, actually I get about an 80% hatch rate
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/272incubator-med.jpg
thats the bathroom cabinet and a 2 sided rubbermaid container, worked for years and cheap to run

[JD@reptiles]

LOL great incubater. pretty cool

[Tim and Julie B]

Hey what ever works right! We use the 10 gal method and it works better then our friends expensive incubator!

[Xetox]

wheres the heat coming from?

[reverendsterlin]

lol, I live in New Mexico Xetox, heat is in long supply here without the need for electronic supplement (cooling during daytime is a trick here). The actual temps under the cabinet vary from about 76-89 F with temps in the rubbermaid slightly more stable 79-85 F. From my records it seems they average a little under 83 F my usual cornsnake egg hatch is at 66 days a little long, suggesting the temps average a tiny bit low.

[Tim and Julie B]

I think my pale Irish a** wouldn't last five minutes there! I think I could get a job at Red Lobster as a mascot though!

[reverendsterlin]

as a scot/irish myself I was born into the area, I tan very dark (makes my baby blues show well) but my/our color is different from most folks my skin tone being more a gold color that others in the area. But don't worry, we aren't so far out into the desert as to lack a red lobster here (but seafood in a landlocked State eeeeewwww)

[marisa]

I am glad to see you using almost the same method as I am right now....my temps are also fluctation in much the same range. I use a shelf in my herp room. Its great!

Marisa

[reverendsterlin]

much better to invest in another snake instead of a $80-300 incubator eh Marisa

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ha ha, that's awesome Rev! I used to do corn eggs that way.

Let me ask you the question though: If you were incubating 10 Super Pastel Ball eggs, would you be happy with an 80% hatch rate? Because the loss of 2 eggs would be $40,000US.


Yikes.

:D

[sSNAKESs.com]

I think if i was hatching 20 grand babies i would quit my job and sit on the eggs myself... LOL!!!

[Lisa]

Originally posted by Jeff
I think if i was hatching 20 grand babies i would quit my job and sit on the eggs myself... LOL!!!

I can just see you perched up on a clutch of eggs.

[Jeff_Favelle]

I can just see you perched up on a clutch of eggs.

Actually, that's how I always picture ********.





Heh heh...

[sSNAKESs.com]

LOL you guys are hectic!! :P

[SnowSnake]

Is the super pastel ball python the snake that costs the most right now? If not, what is it?

Do you have pics of super pastels?

reverend -isn't it bad for the eggs to have such a big temp range?

[reverendsterlin]

I'll bet when and IF Damon Salceies produces more albino GTP we will see the highest paid price for any snake ever found or produced.

[Jeff_Favelle]

I'm still not sold on an albino green reptile. You take the melanin out of a normally green snake or lizard, it it turns puke yellow. Look at the albino iggies. Uuugggly. Hopefully not though. Time will tell.

[SnowSnake]

where can I get pics of super pastel balls or albino ETBs?

If you have an albino ETB won't it be normal colored with red eyes?

[Jeff_Favelle]

No albino Emeralds that I know of (yet), only Green Trees.

Super pastel pictures are everywhere. Try NERD's site, ballpython.com, ballpython.ca, queensnake, etc etc etc...

[SnowSnake]

oops, I ment albino GTPs. Where can I see pics of them?

[reverendsterlin]

http://www.that other places name here/salceies/albino.htm
won't link because that other place won't find me writing its name here lol

[SnowSnake]

Great pics!!! I can't wait to see that albino when he/she will be full grown!