just got a incubator cause my water dragons are laying

what temp should i be going for and the incbator has a section at the bottom were you can add water to make it more humid, should i be making it humid for water dragon eggs or not

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Hi,

Temp of around 29 degrees should be fine.

As far as humidity goes my advice to avoid the trap of adding water to the incubator - far too difficult to acheive reliable humidity for reptile eggs this way.

Put the eggs in air tight containers with a 50:50 by weight water to perlite ratio. Open once a week to allow air circulation. Should not have to add any water for entire incubation.

Heres a pic of my eggs in same incubator to give you an idea....

nice one pagona - how do you find temp stability in those incubators without fan? mine seemd to vary alot - possibly as the daytime temp rises so does incubator but recently put fan back in my unit and done what you have with eggs and temps seem more steady?

i suppose havn incubator in temp controled enviroment would help

congrats on the eggs A.PROPHECY incubate slightly on cooler side to get males?

Good luck with your eggs!

I use one of those incubators for turtle eggs and incubate them in vermiculite at 25 degrees with the fan disconnected. Temperature is good.

Nice one, try 27constant for males.

we have the same incubator. we just put the eggs in with no vermiculite etc.

we have our temp between 27 and 29 and our humidity between 80 and 90 and have had no probs.(this is for our beardies) not sure bout wds.

wouldn`t want to be one of your eggs rockwork?Whats your hatch rate ben like?

My incubator has holes in the bottom so cannot be filled with water. I bought it second hand so don't know if they are made that way or had been added later.

Should not use fan incubator (aka forced air) incubator on reptile eggs unless you have container setup like pogona1. Reason being is that it dries out the eggs often, even if humidity is high. We are afterall trying to simulate natural conditions, and there is no way that there is air cond. when the eggs are buried.

The other bonus about the container method is that you can keep the moisture level very constant by using this method:

1) get some scales. Place your plastic container on the scales and 'zero'the scales. Add your vermiculite/perlite.

2) however much your vermiculite/perlite weighs divide this number by 2 and this is how many grams of water you should add.

e.g: 200g of vermiculite, add 100g water.

Keep this sealed in your incubator and open for short periods of time to remove bad eggs or add more eggs. There is no need to add more water.

Even if you never open it for the duration of the incubation the eggs will hatch. Eggs need very little oxygen to hatch..in the wild they are often buried 2 feet or more down.

Hovabators are great and are cheap.

wouldn`t want to be one of your eggs rockwork?Whats your hatch rate ben like?

good we get about 70% so it not to bad

well I have had 100% of the fertiles using vermiculite moistened like varanophile?

Well done!

tell us how you go

sweet as some good tips

well first two eggs shriveld wasnt ready for them they came a week befor incubator did

shes still fat tho so should be more they might not even be fertile who knows seen the male and her doing the deed sevral times befor tho

could it be not enough humidity ?

probly ay haha im prepared for the next lot lol

is male always humping same female ?

yea that ive noticed but who knows what they get upto when im not around