Help with thermostat

Humidity is a odd beast don't worry about that temps are critical and always will take priority, they are life and death issues. Remember that as ambient temps rise RH drops just because the saturation point of the air changes. It is likely the amount of water in the air is a constant with or with out the bulb.

RELATIVE humidity is exactly that relative not absolute.

The enclosure has a birch frame the door and bottom are glass and the other sides are plexiglass so it is not an aquarium. I got him at NERD in New Hampshire he was in an enclosure that is very similar but their room was much warmer. I have a feeling because of my room temps I may not be able to keep him in that kind of an enclosure. Do you think maybe I should raise the temp of the thermostat I am home so I can constantly take the temp of the Uth with a gun.

As far as the substrate I use cypress mulch I have been moving it to take the temp but I think maybe I have to much in the tank I am going to take some out.

I would suggest a room temp bump a few degrees perhaps. Nothing too extreme maybe to 71-2. This should reduce the range needed.

I bank the substrate a bunch on the cool side and only some on the hot 1/2 inch or less it ends up being pushed to corners and on the edge of the hide that is fine.

I would also put the lamp back on! This is likely to make up the difference. The humidity can easily be solved in other ways temps come first.


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I can't bump up the temp I can't stand the heat plus I go through $700 in oil a month now . I put the bulb on a few hours ago and the and the temps have come up warm side 85 and cool side 78 except oddly enough the Uth was sitting at 88 I bumped up the thermostat and I am now at 90 on the Uth. I think I am going to have to use the infrared in the cold months. Soon enough the warm weather will be here.

I know normally it is best practice to sandwich the stat probe between the UTH and the bottom of the cage (I use Herpstats on my established). I do on my T8s. But my glass quarantine tanks I run with the Hydrofarms as they are in there for such a short amount of time. I did find if I put the probe in the enclosure on top of the glass and laid the UTH mat flat on the underside, it worked much better and was only 2-3 degrees off. I use hot glue to secure the probe wire, but leave the probe itself entirely exposed and resting on the glass.

Oh I thought between the glass and Uth was the best place.

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Originally Posted by lisafoster2510

Oh I thought between the glass and Uth was the best place.

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It sounds like you solved your problem with the heat lamp. I wouldn't mess with the thermostat probe, especially since the UTH wasn't going to raise your ambient temps, anyway.

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Originally Posted by Willie76

I know normally it is best practice to sandwich the stat probe between the UTH and the bottom of the cage (I use Herpstats on my established). I do on my T8s. But my glass quarantine tanks I run with the Hydrofarms as they are in there for such a short amount of time. I did find if I put the probe in the enclosure on top of the glass and laid the UTH mat flat on the underside, it worked much better and was only 2-3 degrees off. I use hot glue to secure the probe wire, but leave the probe itself entirely exposed and resting on the glass.

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I wouldn't put the probe inside the enclosure, snake pees on it, moves the probe, water spills, all these these things could lower the temp the probe is reading verse what the actual temp of your UTH is and cause a spike in your UTH that could burn your snake. I have heard other posters that measured a zoo med getting up to 130 degrees, false probe readings and this could happen.


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Originally Posted by Annarose15

It sounds like you solved your problem with the heat lamp. I wouldn't mess with the thermostat probe, especially since the UTH wasn't going to raise your ambient temps, anyway.

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So the probe is in the right spot between the glass and the Uth. I need things spelled out I can be a bit slow :) I was not worried as much about the ambient temps they were good it was teh temp directly on the glass above the uth. I have been double checking the temp on the glass where his belly is with a temp gun. The hydro farm has to be a good 7-8 degrees higher in order to get that temp up. I have gotten the ambient temps up with the infrared bulb.
Thanks for all the hell everyone :)