{"id":361,"date":"2016-10-26T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T07:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labnetwest.colourfi.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:51","slug":"incubator-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/incubator-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Incubator alternatives:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are tips for growing cultures without an incubator or a warm place such as a hot water system.<br \/>\nUse a 40w incandescent globe, still available from Kmart and Big W but not Bunnings. Place petri dishes side by side and cover them with black plastic (bin liner). To keep a check on the temperature, place a thermometer under the black plastic.<br \/>\nThe lamp needs to be 20cm-30cm away from the petri dishes to keep the temperature near to 30 degrees. Optimally, the temperature should be 28 degrees to keep it safe otherwise pathogens may grow.<br \/>\nA heat pad such as those used for keeping reptiles might also work as well as a heat lamp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are tips for growing cultures without an incubator or a warm place such as a hot water system. Use a 40w incandescent globe, still available from Kmart and Big W but not Bunnings. Place petri dishes side by side and cover them with black plastic (bin liner). To keep a check on the temperature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-technical-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}