If your ambient temps are 76 why not just run an uth for a hot spot-I'm guessing you are using heat bulbs currently?
05-24-2016, 11:05 AM
bcr229
I have racks, stacks, an incubator, and a small chest freezer in my reptile room. That generates a lot of heat. In the winter I keep the house at 70*F but that room is 76-78*F with the door closed. This time of year I'm not running either the heat or A/C so I have a fan blowing cool air from the house into that room, otherwise it would end up in the mid-80's. Once the A/C starts kicking on that room will drop back to 78*F ambient.
05-24-2016, 11:48 AM
chrid16371
Also depending on how big the room your home thermostat is and how small your the snakes are kept in and if your door is closed will have an affect on temp. Say your home thermostat is in a big wide open room and its set to 75 and the room your snakes are in is a normal sized bedroom, it will take longer for the bigger room the home thermostat is in to reach 75 then your bedroom. So the heater kicks on and is trying to heat the bigger room to 75 while the normal sized bedroom has already reached 75 it is still heating up more and more bc the bigger room the home thermostat is in hasn't yet reached 75 so when the bigger room finally reaches 75 the normal sized bedroom is over 75. It would be the same way with ac, it will take longer to cool a bigger area then a smaller area.
05-24-2016, 02:50 PM
Bronzemist
Re: Room Heat
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Originally Posted by LittleTreeGuy
According to your signature line, you only have two snakes? Are they in tanks or PVC enclosures? I'm guessing tanks... if they were in pvc enclosures, you wouldn't notice that much of a difference, I don't think.
