Bulbs, lamps, and a lot of stress

I had a night glow lamp and a 250w heat wave bulp and it sparked i tryed to take it apart but the screw in part broke off, my mind is raceing the temp is droping. I grab the broken bulb take the lamp tell my stepdad to drive to Fin-n-Feather, we arive i talk to the guy i swap the stuff for a wire lamp and a 150w infred bulb(why im walking out a quick sigh), race into my room set the lamp and bulb up turn it on the temp gos up slowly a snap a pic and then here I am.

This is a true strory and was very frighting to me.

Glad it got worked out - and you seem to have absorbed the stress lol. Do you use lamps exclusively for your heat source?

Um well i first tryed a heat matt but that dident work out so well and i cant get it off and so now its there in cuse its stuck to the under side of the tank, so its there and If thers a emergency i can turn it. And over the years i have developed high patchence lvl with haveing a autisice brother and school.

That's understandable. Those stick-on heat pads drive me crazy with their inconsistency.

As long as you can keep the temps and humidity where they need to be it's all good.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

That's understandable. Those stick-on heat pads drive me crazy with their inconsistency.

As long as you can keep the temps and humidity where they need to be it's all good.

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And the heat matts dirve me up the wall with the lvls of heat and heat conduction.
Yea I Keep my Hot side 98-97 and the coldside is like 79-81 and humidy is like 52% I think i will have pics up my noon if i can ride my bike fast.

You might want to have "more than 1" heatlamp on the side incase of problem.

if you only use a heatlamp, you temp might drop a lot during night isn't it ?

For heat mat, it's better to use a dimmer and a thermostat, that way the temp is always at the right temp. The thermostat will adjust it correctly :) !

[QUOTE=Watever] if you only use a heatlamp, you temp might drop a lot during night isn't it [QUOTE]

You want it to drop at night it would if its outside in there real habitat thats whats all the books I have read say

I think you may find quite a few people keep constant temps as opposed to dropping them at night.

That would make a pretty good 2 item poll (constant vs variable) . . . .

it olny fluxs a little maby 2 or 3 Deg

ok i found a solution to your problem ok all snakes need a 12 hour day light period and a dark night period and you only use heat lamps well get a 100 watt infrared bulb and leave that on at night and it provides heat and the snake still thinks its dark it seems to be working great for me:)