Problem with heating...

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Originally Posted by Smynx

Our house stays pretty cool in the winter, so I put all my snakes into one small room and heat that room to 80 degrees with an electric space heater with a built-in thermostat. The warm room combined with heat from the UTHs keep the snakes nice and cozy. On especially cold days, I like to hang out in there myself.

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We wanna do this when we get a bigger place..."snake-ize" a room with snake proof furniture, etc. so they can have a wander about without getting lost, etc., do the room with the right ambient temps...someday, someday. =)

You can use a smaller wattage bulb or use the bulb you already have on a dimmer

do you have a dimmer plugged into your UTH? I checked my UTH and it was 111F, so now I have one of these http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...87/dimmer2.jpg and im messin with it right now to get the temp good

I don't need to dim it any, i need it to be about 3-4 degrees warmer. Don't know how to do that....?

What kind of substrate are you using?

What Matt was saying is that put your lamp on a dimmer so that it doesnt get as hott or like he sugeested a lower wattage bulb :)

I am using aspen.

If you are using aspen you can always decrease the thickness of it. You can also 'fluff' it, to allow better heat exchange. I had some difficutly with aspen myself when I first started out because I had like two inches of the stuff. It's always worth a try. :D

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Originally Posted by cassandra

We wanna do this when we get a bigger place..."snake-ize" a room with snake proof furniture, etc. so they can have a wander about without getting lost, etc., do the room with the right ambient temps...someday, someday. =)

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Good luck with that! My big boa decided the other day when she was out roaming to curl up under a bookshelf on legs that holds my Mali Uro. Well, when curled up she actually lifted up the bookshelf off the floor. She is a beast and goes where she wants.

got it! I added a 1-5 gallon UTH instead of another big one, and now the temp has been at 93.6 since last night! Score! Thanks for all the ideas guys! I appreciate the help! :)