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RE: [Killietalk] Incubators?

Several years ago I built an incubator from a sheet of stryafoam insulation from Home Despot and some plastic sheting. I built it to hold one of those small parts organizers and a one gallon glass jar. I used aerosol foam to glue the sheets togather and fill gaps, put plastic sheeting inside and outwith a large flap to help seal the door. I placed a 100w heater in the gallon jar full of water with an external thermostat witht the temp probe in the parts organizer. It worked great, the only maintinance was to keep the jar filled with water, but since the box was sealed very well, there was very little evaporation.

I found that most of the time I don't need it except when I'm being a cheap bas***d with the heat. Since the fish are in the basement it stays a bit cooler in the winter. I have heard of people who use a converted closet but that is way more that I need, or want. I don't do annual killies so I don't have long term storage of eggs in peat. Currently I use 6 cell culture trays to hatch eggs from plant spawning killies. The culture trays are rectangular, have lids that keep moisture in, stack well, and have a space to write on. Of course, they are reusable and fairly easy to clean.

Drummond





Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland




From: "Kenneth Combs" <KCombs at mergerx_net>
Reply-To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Subject: [Killietalk] Incubators?
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:14:36 -0400


I've read a few references from some posters about "egg incubators". Can
someone enlighten me as to what those are and if/where you can buy them.
I'm kinda "new" with killies and right now, I'm simply putting the peat
in my closet with a cheapo dollar store thermometer. Now that winter is
approaching and me and the wife will be having the usual annual
"Thermostat wars" this winter; my concern was the peat temp when I
inevitably catch the household thermostat at 80F every "4 weeks"
(smirk)... I was wondering if I could do a variation on the method I
used with angels or other eggs layers: which was placing the double zip
locked peat bags in a "Pyrex bath" (glass baking dish) along with a
accurate submersible heater (set at say; 74F or whatever). Then placing
this whole business in one of those Rubbermaid stackable plastic
"organizer drawers". Seems like you could very accurately control the
temp that way. Is this feasible? Hair-brained? Or tried before? Or is
there a better way?

Ken



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