Bearded Dragon Incubator - DIY

I'm far from being an expert on bearded dragons. This is just what I put together one day when I realized I had eggs on the way and nothing to incubate them in. I ran to the store and bought the cord grommets and a cooler. Everything else I had sitting around the house from previous projects. To my surprise it actually worked!! Whiskers laid her eggs August 14th and 15th of '08 and every one of them hatched out two months later.

When I dug the eggs out of the nest box I placed them in a container of moist vermiculite and set them in the incubator. My first ever clutch of bearded dragon eggs stayed in the incubator for 60 days at 86F, and all 23 of them hatched out. One baby died after about 4 days, but none of the others had any trouble at all. As I mentioned before, I am not an expert on bearded dragons. This is just what worked for me once, so I'm trying it again. Maxine is digging in her lay box right now, so hopefully I'll have another clutch of eggs within the next day or two.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Bearded
• Dragon
• Incubator
• Lizard
• Reptile
• Eggs
• Water
• Aquarium
• Cooler
• DIY
• Pogona
• vitticeps

[4qutwat]

like the vid man :)

this mite b a stupid question but whats the pump for?

[TheRoachKeeper]

The pump just circulates the water so that it heats evenly instead of just around the heater. My thinking was that it might help produce a more stable environment for the eggs.

[drumandsnowboard]

u forgot to edit it, how well did it work?

[reptileluver011]

Hey are you still using the cooler incubator to hatch your bearded dragon eggs? Just wondering if your able to maintain consistent temperatures.

[reptileboy1661]

you never did edit that out later inless i saw the uncut version

[BeardedDragonCouple]

Great Video !!! Very helpful, Thanks for sharing :)



[davejohnmorley]

Dude can i do this for gecko eggs

[tokay999]

would this work for ball python eggs

[tysciman7]

yuck your hair

[Norrad01]

What a great idea! I assume from some of your other videos about the hatchlings, that everything turned out? Did you change anything with the setup, and how are you measuring the water in the hatch media? Looking forward to hearing from you...

BTW This video for sure deserves my subscribe! Good job.

[4sm0ke2guam0]

i also gotta question, not so simple as "whats the pump for" but, what exactly is the screening for? and how do u keep them in your soil mixture? just in containers?