Help with Heat

you may need a second heat source for the cool side. thermostats will go a long way in regulating temps and make it alot easier.


vaughn

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Originally Posted by BALLPYTHON

58 degress? damn you must live closer to canada then.

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i live in canada and it was 95 F on saturday, 90 yesturday and soppose to be 90 today LOL, i guess it isnt cold here for all 12 months LOL.

oh ya....
if you live in canada then why are you using farenheit instead of celsius?

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Originally Posted by BALLPYTHON

oh ya....
if you live in canada then why are you using farenheit instead of celsius?

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LOL good question. well even though i am from Canada i live very close to the state of maine and have spent a lot of time in New England. so i have got used to using Farenheit along with Celsius. plus, pretty much everyone on here uses F so it just makes it easier if we all or most speak the same language.

haha
ya i figured that.
i wished the weather stayed like this all year long.

look at my info on my avatar, I live in norther ca right next to the cost

i used to live in toronto like 5 years ago and every one there in my community new farenheit not that we could convert it off the top over our heads but the radio stations used to say xx degrees celsius and xx degrees farenhiet guess it helped the outa towners or something

Greetings All:



Please forgive me from posting this question on this thread, but I am a big dummy and couldn't seem to find the new topic button on the page, and since it my question is a bit on this topic, I figured what the heck.

On to the question. I have just purchased a baby fresh Ball Python. This will be my first pet of the slithering kind. I was advised at the pet shop where I got him/her that I needed a heat rock. I questioned this because I have read that the hot rocks are bad for snakes, (burns, not even heating, ect) the dude told me that this rock was o.k. because it had a temp regulator, and shut down when It reached a certon temp and fired back up when it cooled a bit. If I remember it right it is a Exo Terra rock. I am just concerned for the little one and do not want to anything to harm him/her. I have a heat lamp on top and a heating pad under the tank, it keeps the warm end around 88-90F, and the cool end has shade and a small pond and stays around 75F or so. I have a 55gal tank he/she is in. Things seem to be fine, but I wanted some reasureance. The little guy seems to spend quite a bit of time either on top of the rock or in the safe box next to it. Of course he has also found the pond with the safe box inside it and he also likes to take a dip about once every two days. My humidity stays around 70 percent. Am I doing o.k. by the little one?

Help please!

Thanks in advance
Ray

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Originally Posted by pumba

I was advised at the pet shop where I got him/her that I needed a heat rock. I questioned this because I have read that the hot rocks are bad for snakes, (burns, not even heating, ect)

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Do not use heat rocks w/ BP's they have a low heat senes when it come to heat rocks, plz hurt that guy:stab: for saying that and dont get a heat rock!

Gotcha! WIll Do, Well I mean I will discontinue the use of the rock, I can't exactly go and hurt that dude, considering I am a cop and thay may not look good on the good old file. I do appreciate the advice. As far as the rest of my setup, am I o.k?? I will take any advice given from thoes of more experience.


Thanks again,
Ray