Hello all,
I bought a 222d enclosure for my year old Suriname. I set it up and am waiting for the husbandry to be up to par. For the life of me, I cannot get the temperature correct. I have a radiant heat panel on the ceiling of the enclosure. I connected it to a Hydrofarm thermostat to the panel and played around with the settings. The probe is about an inch from the panel and I set the settings from 95 F up to 104 F. Whenever I use my temp gun to measure the temperature on the floor beneath the panel, the hottest temp I got was 85 F. I finally just connected the panel to the outlet without the thermostat and the hottest point is still in the lower to mid 80s. Does anybody who has a Boaphile plastics enclosure with a heat panel have this problem? If so, how do you fix it? My girl is still in her glass tank because I do not want to put her in an environment where the husbandry is not correct.