Thermostat wire setup

[BPmom]

For now, I have my bp in a glass tank with a sliding screen cover. The UTH is already stuck to the bottom of the outside of the tank. The wires are entering the tank through two small holes near the lock of the cover. They are twisted together to avoid him getting even more tangled in them. They hang down the side of the tank, go right under the substrate and tank liner, and are stuck to the closed end of his hot hide with small suction cup hooks. From there, they go above the tank liner, and above the uth placed under his hot hide. I make sure it’s held in place for the most part by putting his actual hide on top of the wires just before the metal thermostat tip. Well, long story short (sorry, I know that’s not short), my buddy has learned how to push the twisted wires away from the side of the tank, and he now constantly slithers his way around them. He won’t even wait for his entire body to be completely through the wires before he’s going back for more, almost like a kid going down a playground slide over and over and over again. He does not get tangled in them, but from the description of the setup, you can probably see why it’s such a pain to have to go in there everyday just to put them back in place! My concern, is he’s pulling on them so much, the metal tip of the thermostat that reads the temp, is being pulled away from the uth. He did this last week but I check it everyday so I’m glad I caught it this time. Now to my solution...


im thinking of putting together a few empty pens, removing all the ink inside, and super-glueing them to the side of the glass tank. From the substrate to the cover is the only part of the wires he has access to. If I can superglue the pen liners to the tank, I can slide the wires through the pen liners, and he won’t be able to pull them.


Cani I use super glue in the tank in such a way? especially so close to the heat lamp? He won’t be in the tank much come summer, but This needs a permanent fix.


Here are are some photos of the wire setup now:

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[PitOnTheProwl]

That is one of the main reasons the probe goes outside the enclosure.

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[BPmom]

Won’t the UTH get damaged if I remove it to put the probe above the UTH and under the glass?

[Craiga 01453]

Won’t the UTH get damaged if I remove it to put the probe above the UTH and under the glass?

If you're careful and take your time it will be fine. This is a common mistake and a relatively easy fix.

[Quarks]

Had the same problem when first setting up my tank. I solved this by putting the probe under
the UTE instead of sandwiched between the UTE and the glass on the bottom underside of the tank. The result is that my UTE probe reads a few degrees below the actual temp of the surface of th glass above the UTE, but you need to be taking the temp of the glass surface with a temp gun anyways to check, because probes take an average temp of the air around them, not just of the surface they sit on. I simply taped my probe on the very bottom, took the temp on the top with the temp gun, and then adjusted accordingly so the surface temp of the glass in the tank above the UTE is approx 88 deg. It works for me!

Edit: and yes, I've heard some accounts of probes getting damaged when sandwiched between the glass and the UTE. Don't have a first hand account of it happening though. Most of the mid-price to cheap thermostats fail after an average of 1-5 years though, which I found out through some pretty thorough research, so unless you're counting on getting lucky or your have a herpstat, you should be checking the hot spot on the glass with a temp gun regularly. (unless you have someway to keep that second thermometer probe secure on the glass, which is difficult) Idk what the general consensus on that bit of husbandy is but I'd personally go with quickly checking at least once a week.