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oOBrieOo

OT - Well my one breeding project for the year is a bust.

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(05/21/08 20:12:50)

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We had a crazy 90-100 degree, 2-3 day heat wave come through my area last week. This is the result. Despite my efforts to keep the incubator cooler then the rest of the house(ice packs, ice), it still hit 90 at one point and I knew they were done for, just 5 days before they were due to hatch. Bloody depressing is what it is.

This is the one survivor. I'll probably end up euthanizing it as it doesn't have much control over the last half of its body due to the kinks.

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(05/21/08 21:09:05)

that is sad. Sorry for your loss

NC

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(05/21/08 22:18:03)

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Damn Brie im really sorry.

OnSafari247

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(05/21/08 22:49:59)

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If you don't have air-conditioning why don't you get a portable one?

Mike E Lockwood

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(05/22/08 05:16:52)

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Heat waves suck! Sorry.

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(05/22/08 06:09:24)

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OnSafari247 wrote:
If you don't have air-conditioning why don't you get a portable one?

Houses, esp old houses, in my area aren't built with air conditioning, and I can't really afford nearly 1g on buying a good sized portable one. Plus the windows in our house won't hold those cheap window ones. So we're just screwed in the summer.

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(05/22/08 16:33:40)

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sorry to hear about the clutch:(

that really sucks

-mike-

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(05/22/08 18:18:28)

It was out of your control Brie. I'm sure you did your best. Sorry!

Larry Stroud

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(05/23/08 04:01:48)

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Sorry for your loss Brie. I know that must be a heartbreaker.

I think I can be of some help here though. I used to do installation for a local appliance company, and as a favor to them, I ended up installing many of those "cheap window units"!

Many of those installations were in windows that were not really designed for it and a lot of them ended up being quite interesting to say the least. If you could take a photo of your window I would like to take a look.

I see those small one room units at the box stores for under a hundred bucks. I'll bet it can be done.

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(05/23/08 16:02:07)

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Sorry for that bummer news. I'm actually surprised that 90 killed the whole clutch that close to hatch. I don't think it caused the kinks, what do you think?

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(05/23/08 16:53:18)

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1G??? Ive seen pretty decent units at walmart (that at the very least can air condition a room) for $ 140.00.....If not wal-mart try online, there are definetly good ac units for way cheaper than a grand out there...

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(05/23/08 17:33:14)

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Sorry to see that Brie. I've got eggs in the snake room now, but even with hot weather, the eggs haven't gotten above 84 degrees. I don't use an incubator for the corns. I also find it surprising that you had all the kinking with only 5 days to go. Kinking is usually earlier in the incubation when you get high temps during the stage when the skeletal system is really getting established. I'd figure that 5 days before, they are pretty much ready to go and just soaking up yolk. It might have been purely coincidental that they did this now. Occasionally clutches will have kinks for no reason. Is it possible you had a temperature spike at some point during the early incubation?

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(05/23/08 18:06:45)

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Brie,
that really sucks. Sorry to hear about that. I'm sure you were really looking forward to those little critters.

Bob

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(05/23/08 18:17:39)

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In defense of Brie; I too live in the Pacific North West (30 min from Brie). I've been to many of house, condo and apartment none of wich are equipt with A/C of any sort. We experience about 2 weeks of weather above the 90's here, so people just deal with the heat instead of shelling out A LOT of cash for a A/C unit.

The A/C units you see for sale under the 700 dollar mark are ones that fit certain "clamp style" windows. I'm guessing these are the ones she's looking at - http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=portable+air+conditioner&um=1&ie=UTF-8

I spent 800 bucks on a portable a/c unit like the ones above... It's an absolute joke for rooms lager than a small bedrooms. It makes me really wonder what the point is for ones under this price. So, Brie is right.. you'll have to spend well over a grand for one of these to work well.... By the way the ones you see that work for the "clamp style" windows work a hell of a lot better and are a hell of a lot cheeper. I smell conspiracy!

Really sorry for your loss Brie.. thats just awful.

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(05/23/08 19:52:03)

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When I used to live in a warmer climate than I do now, I had a rough time getting it cool enough to brumate colubrids in the house (in a manner that I could control the temp). Had no basement, no closets on outside walls, etc.. I finally had to buy a small, one room air conditioner made for a window. I had a small extra bathroom that I basically sealed off for 3 months and kept at 60 degrees.

I think sometimes we take temp control for granted, because most of the time all we think about is heating, not cooling.

Brian Suter

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