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  5. Home made incubater

    in Technical

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    I've hatched RES eggs in a fishtank before. Used a 30 x 60, put in two bricks and a platform ontop of the two bricks, fill the tank tank with water to just above the bricks, put in fish tank heater and set temp, make sure heater is under water, put eggs in sealed container with moist vermicilite(sp) and seal lid, put container on platform, cover tank, add water every few days to keep the water level up and then you wait, and wait, watch paint dry, and wait and wait, watch grass grow, and wait, then if everything goes to plan the eggs should hatch

  7. Anyone tried this? (Overflow pipe)

    in DIY Section

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    The level of water in the tank will only drop to below the top of the pipe where the water goes in, won't it? :-?

    SamH is right, only drops to the inlet, which is right up the top of the tank. It's the water in the overflow drops down to the 1/4 mark, but when the return restarts again it fills up and its all go.

  8. Anyone tried this? (Overflow pipe)

    in DIY Section

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    overflow.jpg

    This is what mine looks like

    The light blue line is when everything is running,

    The dark blue line is when there is a power cut or interuption to water flow that causes the tank's water level to fall below the inlet. As you can see there is still water in the bit that goes over the side of the tank. If the syphon is broken in this bit everything will not restart.

    As you can see the inlet on mine is very long, thats for the greater water flow. I get about 2000L/hour, using 32mm pvc, with a tap closed 3/4. Fully open and it sucks more water than my punp can return and constantly makes a loud sucking sound.

    If you look at the green arrow, that is where the outflow will suck to when power is off. From that you can see why your first diagram won't work. The "u" in the inlet is way above the t-joint illistrated in my diagram. Livingart's diagram has the t-join way higher to stop the syphon flow breaking

    PS make sure the breather pipe extends higher than the tank's water level, cause I have a tap in the sump, if I turn the tap fully closed, water will flow up the breather up to the tank water level, trouble waiting to happen if you have a shorter breather.

  23. Tortoise

    in Reptiles and Amphibians

    Posted

    I've emailed that seller and they said that in the past their torts have come out femail so this time they've tried to get males.

    We did not go below 87.8 and did not go above

    89.6. During the middle of incubation we ran the temp

    @ approx 88.0 up to 88.9.

    Any tortoise breeders want to comment on the incubation procedure?

    I would love one but the better half wants an engagement ring, I offered an engagement tortoise as a compromise :wink: and suffered for that comment.

  24. Turtle hybrids

    in Reptiles and Amphibians

    Posted

    I have one with squiggly Patten on its shell which i found unusual.And one with olive colouring like Livingart showed on one of his post.I think it was one of his babys he was showing.I have not seen this colour before.

    Have hybrid turtles been released into the public before? I also have a red eared with strange pattening. I got it as an adult so not sure of it's origins

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