SensorPush has become a sponsor of the Galapagos Tortoise Alliance. The sensors allow you to monitor on your smartphone the temperature and humidity and it stores readings to when you check you can see a graph of the entire history by hour, day, week, etc. If you install a wifi gateway, you can monitor this from anywhere in the world. So while on vacation, I can check temperatures and even set alarms on my phone to ensure everything is working properly and keeping temperatures where they need to be. One gateway can pair with an unlimited number of sensors.
I have been using SensorPush temperature/humidity sensors for several years now to monitor my night boxes, enclosures and incubation boxes. I have come to communicate several times with one of the owners describing my Temperature Dependent Sex Determination studies with my Burmese Stars. I place a sensor in the incubation box of every clutch of Burmese Star eggs, and graph the temperature and humidity every 30 minutes over the entire diapause and incubation period. For example here is a graph from one of the 2021 clutches:
So I can reference this with the sex of the hatchlings as later determined. For my own monitoring I have highlighted what I believe female producing temps in pink and male in blue so I can easily see how much temperature degree days I have for the incubation duration. I then mark when the first pip occurs with hatchling number.
When explaining this to the owner of SensorPush and my desire to do this study with Galapagos for the GTA, he offered to sponsor the project and donate 30 of his most accurate sensors and a few gateways. So, although the laying females are at our Florida location, I can monitor the data here is California and download data to graph any time I wish for the project.
Here's the sensors marked and ready for placement in the incubation boxes as clutches are laid this year:
Thank you SensorPush. We appreciate your support!
Galapagos Tortoise Alliance.
I have been using SensorPush temperature/humidity sensors for several years now to monitor my night boxes, enclosures and incubation boxes. I have come to communicate several times with one of the owners describing my Temperature Dependent Sex Determination studies with my Burmese Stars. I place a sensor in the incubation box of every clutch of Burmese Star eggs, and graph the temperature and humidity every 30 minutes over the entire diapause and incubation period. For example here is a graph from one of the 2021 clutches:
So I can reference this with the sex of the hatchlings as later determined. For my own monitoring I have highlighted what I believe female producing temps in pink and male in blue so I can easily see how much temperature degree days I have for the incubation duration. I then mark when the first pip occurs with hatchling number.
When explaining this to the owner of SensorPush and my desire to do this study with Galapagos for the GTA, he offered to sponsor the project and donate 30 of his most accurate sensors and a few gateways. So, although the laying females are at our Florida location, I can monitor the data here is California and download data to graph any time I wish for the project.
Here's the sensors marked and ready for placement in the incubation boxes as clutches are laid this year:
Thank you SensorPush. We appreciate your support!
Galapagos Tortoise Alliance.
