Anyone using ambient heat only successfully?
Hey Everyone,
I know this topic has been discussed previously, but I wanted to get a consensus to see if people are successfully implicating this practice into their home collections. With my new oil heater I have been able to dial in ambient temps hovering around 80-82 degrees in my snake room. I checked temps in all parts of the room and it stays pretty consistent throughout. Im now seeing that with my ambient temps in the 82 deg range, rather than in the mid to high 70s as they were previously, all my snakes are using their hot spots far less often.
Im wondering if it is still really necessary to keep utilizing the UTHs providing hot spots, and just switch over to ambient temps only. I know that this technique is being used by experts as of now, but if I am able to keep the ambient temps up, why wouldn't it also work for me?
Let me know if anyone else has had success themselves doing this. The species I am currently keeping are boas, burms, retics, bps.
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I am wondering the same things as well as would it be beneficial to have a night drop and what would happen to breeding females when they are in cycle and seeking either hot or cold?
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I think I am going to try it after my females lay this season with the exception of my quarantine tubs which are not in the same room anyway. Would sure make things a little more simple and simpler is always better.
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Originally Posted by
Sauzo
I use only RHPs and CHEs in my cages. I don't use UTH as I personally don't trust them. Sure with a good T-stat they are fine but if the T-stat goes fritz, then you can have a cooked snake. With a T-stat fritz on a RHP or CHE, the snake will probably be warm but he/she can move to the cool side and doesn't run any chance of being burned. That being said, I've never had an issue with only ambient heat.
What temps are your RHPs and CHEs running at in your cages? I guess heating a whole room to the correct ambient temp would be the same as getting an enclosure to the correct ambient temps with a RHP.
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Originally Posted by
JoshSloane
What temps are your RHPs and CHEs running at in your cages? I guess heating a whole room to the correct ambient temp would be the same as getting an enclosure to the correct ambient temps with a RHP.
Not exactly. Heating half an enclosure with a CHE, or RHP will still leave a cooler side for your animal to properly thermoregulate it's self. Heating an entire room leaves the entire enclosure at one temp.
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