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Originally Posted by KMG

So you have one? Ive never seen one.

The main thing, the most important thing, to have with a uth is a thermostat. I would say a build in thermometer is not needed and only adds a device to break on a unit that is fairly simple and does not need to be made complicated. How would you see it anyways? The tstat monitors the temp at the uth and the thermometer would be used to monitor the hot spot inside the cage. Having one on the uth is really not needed.

Plus if its rare and hard to find why recommend it? Especially without adding a link.

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Perhaps a thermostat is the word I'm looking for. A way to gauge (in the case that you don't have an expensive temp gun) how hot the pad is. I know that in my area I can't find a temperature gun for less than $50.

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Originally Posted by MontyAndMelissa

Perhaps a thermostat is the word I'm looking for. A way to gauge (in the case that you don't have an expensive temp gun) how hot the pad is. I know that in my area I can't find a temperature gun for less than $50.

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Are you telling me that you don't have a tstat? Not knowing what the difference between the two tells me you don't.

Thermostat= Device you plug the uth into that regulates the amount of power to the uth to produce the desired temp on the mat.

Thermometer= Device that monitors and displays the temperature of either the air or surface depending on the type of thermometer used.

Temp guns can be had on Amazon dirt cheap. Much less than $50. I would link the one I bought but its no longer available.

I don't have a uth under his tank, I have a small one on the side of the tank. I prefer not to use uth's because they can cause burns on BP's. I use only heat lamps. You can tell me it's the wrong way or the right way all you want, its the way I do it.

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Originally Posted by MontyAndMelissa

I don't have a uth under his tank, I have a small one on the side of the tank. I prefer not to use uth's because they can cause burns on BP's. I use only heat lamps. You can tell me it's the wrong way or the right way all you want, its the way I do it.

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I have no problem with you using heat lamps alone. I do have a problem with you giving information about something that you don't know anything about and have not done yourself.

Also having an unregulated uth on the side of the cage can still burn your snake if it lays along the glass where it is. With heat lamps providing what the snake needs a uth on the side of the tank is not needed.

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Originally Posted by KMG

I have no problem with you using heat lamps alone. I do have a problem with you giving information about something that you don't know anything about and have not done yourself.

Also having an unregulated uth on the side of the cage can still burn your snake if it lays along the glass where it is. With heat lamps providing what the snake needs a uth on the side of the tank is not needed.

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The uth is too small to emit enough heat to burn him. The side of the tank where the heater is is only 82(f)

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Originally Posted by MontyAndMelissa

The uth is too small to emit enough heat to burn him. The side of the tank where the heater is is only 82(f)

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So you have a thermometer probe on the glass? Without a probe on the glass or a temp gun you don't know the temp of the glass. I have the smallest uth out there and it can really cook just like its bigger brothers.

Uth's do not heat the air.

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Originally Posted by KMG

So you have a thermometer probe on the glass? Without a probe on the glass or a temp gun you don't know the temp of the glass. I have the smallest uth out there and it can really cook just like its bigger brothers.

Uth's do not heat the air.

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I have a friend with a heat gun she uses for her bp. She brought it over recently so I could make sure my thermometer is reading correctly (because it was reading cold) and we checked the area with the heat pad at the same time. Everything was on point so I got a new ceramic bulb, which seemed to be the problem

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Originally Posted by MontyAndMelissa

I know that in my area I can't find a temperature gun for less than $50.

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Home Depot in Gilroy has Ryobi temp guns in stock (5 of them) for 29.97

http://m.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-4-to-...001/100674438/

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Originally Posted by Tragic Image

Home Depot in Gilroy has Ryobi temp guns in stock (5 of them) for 29.97

http://m.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-4-to-...001/100674438/

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Must be a special for Christmas. I'll go pick one up tomorrow.

Regular price. Check for Lowes as well. Home Depot was just my first search. Use the key words "temp gun" instead of "heat gun"