Questions About Room Temps

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Originally Posted by mp27006

This is exactly why I posted this question :oops:. I was wondering if I was the only one who felt like I just entered the gates of satan when I go in my snake room.

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Hahaha! :rofl:

70 in the winter, 75-80 in the summer, no heat cept for the reptiles

I don't worry about the room temp. As long as it's livable for me that's all that matters. (Why? No, I'm not a selfish/ignorant pet owner ... you'll see in the next paragraph*) That's why I keep room temps from the mid-60's to mid-70's all year-round depending on hot or cold I feel and how much I want to spend on heat or air conditioning ... and let me tell you, Chicago can get pretty hot and very cold and we often get big temp swings during the week or day.

I also don't "worry" about my bp's temps ... *why?* ... because I've got a proper-sized sterilite tub with good ventilation and proper humidity for shed or non-shed provided by separate humidity box within the enclosure, an accurate digital thermometer and humidity gauge ... and most importantly: 3 Helix thermostats connected to 3 UTH's: 1 under the cool hide set to 80F and one under the warm hide set to 90F, plus, one monitoring the UTH on the lid of the tub to maintain ambient air; with this set up the coolest the ambient air temp gets is 76F min and 82F max.

So there you have it ... a heavy investment in progressive thermostats pays off with a constant self-monitoring system to provide the proper heat gradient especially under each hide and maintain a comfortable ambient air temp without going below an unhealthy 75F.

I've read that bp's thermoregulate properly and get most of their heat through belly heat, and ambient air is not as important as long as it's in a normal range (and especially not below 75F).

Hope this helps ;)

I live in a drafty place so the cost of heating a single room to 80 is scary. I have been running a dual system on everything, I have hot side a nd cool side heaters on the rack and enclosures I also have done tons of work to keep things as efficient asI can. My most effeciant enclosures looses about a degree an hour with no power.

This all means that I have a room temp that is currently 72 which is high (sunny with no wind outside) but it has been as cold as 65 in the room. The snakes don't suffer the cold the enclosures dip a touch but the loweset the worst of them went (the rack) was 78 / 88. I figured that was quite good as the room was low to mid 60s.

Just a second idea if needed it is costly as I have herpstats on everything (two probes for each enclosure) and I also run a second T-stat as a fail safe on everything too. I save on power however.

I keep my room at 80 in the winter time with an oiled fill heater and in the summer I don't use any supplemental heating because my room stays at 78. Yes, this is very warm and at times a little uncomfortable. I run the a/c in the summer in my living room so when I need to cool off I spend a lot of my time in my living room.