feeding problems

A 75 watt is way to much for a 20 gallon tank and the 50 is prob alittle low. Use the same watt bulbs for day and night, a drop is not needed or desired by your snake. If sounds like the regurg is prob from bad temps.

Do you have the heat lamp resting on the screen?

I like to put my lamps on the Zoo Med light stands. They allow you to raise the fixture and therefor lower the temp of the bulbs hot spot in the tank. I would buy a pair of 60 watt bulbs and light stands if you can afford it. If not you might also buy another 50 and take the 75 watt away. If you get a tstat its hot spot will be taken care of so then you just need to keep the rest of the tank around 80. Also get regular style bulbs not basking bulbs.

My 40 gallon tank has a 75 watt ceremic heater and two 60 watt(oneday/one night) to give me good temps. My home stays at 68 and both my heat sources are raised about 4-6 inches above the tanks screen. That should give you an idea of how much heat you are pumping into your tank.

Ok yea then its definetly too hot. And my light is about 4 inches off the screen. Amd you said just to grt a regular 60 watt light bulb for the dy light?

When I say regular bulb style I meant one that looks like what you would put in a lamp. They make a bulb called a basking bulb. They have larger flat heads and create a tighter hot spot in your tank which creates to much heat. If you get the uth on the tstat and get that to 90 the 60 watt bubls hoovering a few inches above your tank should get you to 80 ambient(air temo), what your wall thermo should read.

What substrate are you using? How thick is it?

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Here is a pic of my 40 gallon BP tank. Notice that the ceremic heater is pretty far from the tank and creates a 90 degree hotspot. They concentrate the heat much like a basking bulb.

http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/...g/eb6ed05a.jpg

Aspen. About 3/4 inch thick id say

Neermind. I have repti bark

Well the tstat will take a bit a dialing in to get it right. My stat is set to 98 and through the glass and the cypress mulch is gives 90 to 91 on the surface. The tstat that Petco sells does not have a temp read out so you will prob need to buy a digiatl thermo. SRMD94 was right about Walmart having a indoor/outdoor with humidity gauge, ther are about 12 to 15 bucks and in the gardening section. Take the probe and put it under the substrate over the uth, then place the unit on the cool side. Doing this will give you the hotspot temp and the cool side temp with you humidity. If your probe is reading a hot spot on the glass on 93 to 94 your hot spot should be around 90. The best way to check is with a IR temp gun, I bought a cheapo from Amazon for 20 bucks but now its 10. It has worked great for me.

This is the gauge on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o01_s00_i00

Here is the temp gun I bought
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o00_s00_i00

i went to petco and petsmart and neither had t-stats for the uth. but i am curently uploading the pictures of my terrarium

I would suggest a Herpstat 1 from Spyder Robotics. They have two models Herpstat1 Basic and the Herstat1. Either would work for you and both are much better than what the big box stores offer. They are not the cheapest but they are not the highest either. Alot of us on here use them.

http://www.spyderrobotics.com/store/

i cant figure out how to upload a photo. when i use the insert image icon it blows up the picture fully screen and i cant ad it to the message. any help?

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ok well im a 19 yr old student at LSU, what are some good cheaper options htat work well.

ok well im a 19 yr old student at LSU, what are some good cheaper options htat work well.