Temp question

Hi,


I would imagine that unless you are buying it as part of a "bundle" it will not come with the actual heater it will be used to control.

What heating system you use depends on your setup but a nice UTH like flexwatt or zoomed reptile heating pads would be the kind of thing most people would recomend and then think of supplemental heating if that didnt prove to be enough.

Have a search around the forums as quite a few threads are out there that talk about setting up heating and thermostats.:)


dr del

Hello,

I am also wondering how thick you have the aspen and the placement of the probe on your digital thermometer on the hot side? I also have a glass tank to house my BP although I use the cypress mulch (but I would guess that it may be similar to aspen????). On the hot side you are really measuring the belly heat, but if your BP is anything like mine, my girl likes to push the mulch around under her hot side hide so I have my probe placed right on the glass so I can measure the temp at the glass so she won't get burned. I have found that if the substrate is too thick you won't get correct readings as they will read a bit lower than what they really are should your BP push away some of that substrate. So you may want to place the probe right on the glass and thin out your substrate a little to get the correct temps. In order to get the cool side temp up you may need to get another UTH with another thermostat in order to control that side's temps as well.

And the humidity shouldn't be at 70% all the time. You may not need to run the humidifier all the time, just when the humidity starts to fall down near 50% or below. When you start noticing your BP going into shed then you can bring the humidity up to around 60 - 70%.