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    Cal King crawls under reptile carpet -- need suggestions

    I have a juvenile kingsnake that's giving me a bit of a problem. Hiss (as we named him) lives in a 20long glass cage that I've set up with an under-tank heating. Inside the tank I use a layer of reptile carpet and then a substrate of shredded coconut bark. The probe from his Helix thermostat -- that the tank heater is plugged into -- runs down the back of the tank, under the reptile carpet, and then is threaded up through the carpet so that it's measuring the temperature in about the middle of the shredded coconut substrate.

    However, naughty Hiss is crawling UNDER the reptile carpet and lying directly on the glass over his heater. I'm sure you can see why I'm concerned about this. He has identical hides on the warm and cool end of the tank, but he ignores them in favor of burrowing under the carpet.

    My question is -- should I be concerned about this? The temperature is set at 85 degrees on the warm side of the hide, in the middle of the substrate (ambient air temp in the hide is 75). Should I just ditch the repticarpet, and trust that 85 degrees won't burn him? It would be trivial to just tug the probe back under the reptile carpet so that it's measuring the temperature directly on the glass.

    My ball python is so much better behaved ...

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    Re: Cal King crawls under reptile carpet -- need suggestions

    Hi,

    The main poroblem I can see if you are not measuring the temps on the glass where he is lying.

    I would throw the reptile carpet away, put the helix probe outside the enclosure between the heatmat and the bottom of the tank and adjust it so the glass temps pose no risk then maybe thin the bedding a bit to get the temps to what you want inside his warm end hide.

    That way he can't mess with the probe or ever come into contact with temps that would cause him any probs.


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    7 adult Royals (2.5), 1.0 COS Pastel, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Lesser platty Royal python, 1.1 Black pastel Royal python, 0.1 Blue eyed leucistic ( Super lesser), 0.1 Piebald Royal python, 1.0 Sinaloan milk snake 1.0 crested gecko and 1 bad case of ETS. no wife, no surprise.

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    Re: Cal King crawls under reptile carpet -- need suggestions

    Sounds like a plan. Thanks!

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