Re: How do you make the plastic viv hot enough without lighting?
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Medusa<3
My room temps are pretty cold. Maybe around 67
if your room is that cold, you will either need to heat it up or use a tank where you can use lamps to keep the ambient temp over 75*. If the temp is too low, your snake can get a respiratory infection which are a killer to knock out.
If you still want to use a tub, a 12 or 15 qt will be good for a baby. Once they get 500g or so bump them up to a 28 or 32qt tub.
Make sure to have a thermostat on the UTH and try to offer two additional hides.
Re: How do you make the plastic viv hot enough without lighting?
As many have mentioned...but I will repeat thrice...please, please, please, buy a thermostat for your UTH. Do not run your UTH without a thermostat...even with cypress substrate covering it. Ball pythons can burrow and an unregulated UTH can burn or kill your ball python.
Re: How do you make the plastic viv hot enough without lighting?
[QUOTE=ballophile;2025704]As many have mentioned...but I will repeat thrice...please, please, please, buy a thermostat for your UTH. Do not run your UTH without a thermostat...even with cypress substrate covering it. Ball pythons can burrow and an unregulated UTH can burn or kill your ball python.[/QUOTE.
I dont have a thermostat and the soonest i can get it is tomorrow. Would it be better to just turn it off??
Re: How do you make the plastic viv hot enough without lighting?
I just measured them again and my air under the log where his heating pad is is 82.6 and under the tank is 90, and the cool side is 72.5 so im going to go get a heat emmiter and hopefully that raises the temp a bit, or are the temps fine here?