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Apexx
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Will this work to keep temps up?????
#995850 - 10/26/02 11:24 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hi guys, I did a search and read that someone reccomended boiling water, putting it in a jar and keeping it in a drawer with your jars or casings will keep the temperature to an optimun level. Of course you would hve to change it twice a day but ithink its worth it if you have no other means of heating, what do you think??
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#995855 - 10/26/02 11:29 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds like a pain in the ass.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#995856 - 10/26/02 11:30 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Can you not build a simple incubator? I'm not trying to sound condescending, I'm merely asking. What about one of these: http://www.myco-tek.com/TEKs/Incubation.htm
Its cheap, easy, effective, and fairly easy to conceal.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Skikid16]
#995866 - 10/26/02 11:32 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I cannot as it would be a little revealing for the situation I'm in. Im just trying to find a non revealing method to keep my drawer at the right temp.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Skikid16]
#995867 - 10/26/02 11:32 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I cannot as it would be a little revealing for the situation I'm in. Im just trying to find a non revealing method to keep my drawer at the right temp.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#995903 - 10/26/02 11:45 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wait, actually one of these would probably do the trick...The link you gave me does not have the pictures though.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#995906 - 10/26/02 11:47 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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If that is too bulky or tall, try building an incubator with an aquarium heater in one of those small Rubbermaid shoeboxes, they are 99 cents at Home Depot.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#995910 - 10/26/02 11:49 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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It does when I hit it, try it again. Oh stonedfish, I don't think the shoe boxes have enough clearance for a fish tank heater.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#996007 - 10/27/02 12:49 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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In reply to:
I cannot as it would be a little revealing for the situation I'm in. Im just trying to find a non revealing method to keep my drawer at the right temp.
Not trying to be condesending, but a fish tank heater would be too revealing while taking the time to boil water twice a day wouldn't?
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: drenaline]
#996011 - 10/27/02 12:51 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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well you may be right, so i think the aquarium heater will have to do.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#996426 - 10/27/02 08:46 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Im incubating my jars at the bottom of my dresser. Its all the jars in the box they came in. With a heating pad on top as a cover. Keeps the temp in a very good range for me and almost done colonizing soon.
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#997212 - 10/27/02 03:46 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Instead of using boiling water, you can microwave wheat or rice grains. They get very hot, and hold heat much longer than boiling water.
Get a cotton sock. Fill the sock half way with dry wheat grain, rice grain or rye grain, then tie a knot in the sock. Microwave on high for 5 minutes.
Be careful, its really hot! (Some people use this method for creating a heat pad for arthritis and rheumatism)
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Edited by goldtop (10/27/02 03:51 PM)
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Re: Will this work to keep temps up????? [Re: Apexx]
#997401 - 10/27/02 05:21 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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i have tried using the fish aquarium heater, but blew it due to high temp. evaporating the h2o and it sitting in a dry jar. could have possibly started a fire, so now i prefer to keep them next in the edges of a soft sided waterbed kept at 85 degrees. i know not everyone has a h2obed but for what its worth. usually colonization time of pint jars for ecudors (sp?) & golden teachers averages 2 1/2 weeks. the bed may dry out cakes, but this isn't important since our jars are just for bulk sub. but for pf cakes it may not work so well...
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