Belly Heat Temperature

that depends on what the temps are inside your cage when the stat is set to 97. to keep your hot side 90 you might need to set the stat to 93 or 95 or something different. the temps inside your cage will need to be checked and adjust your stat to get your desired temps. can you describe your setup? i'm curious why you two heat sources on your hot side?


vaughn

I'm asking about the belly heat with all other variables aside, because those are taken care of. My hot side ambient temp is controlled with a proportional thermostat and steady always at 90 degrees, thanks to a CHE overhead. My cool side is generally around 80 degrees.

Why are you putting the probe under the carper on the glass when the snake is going to be on top of the carpet ??

it isn't.

Oh ok.nevermind

LOL wow this got needlessly complicated. :lol:

I myself don't have any experience with thermostats yet(definitely getting a good one soon, and some flexwatt). But I think I understand it. Here's how you set it up.

Put the digital thermometers probe inside the warm hide on the substrate so you can measure the temperatures that your snake feels. Then plug your UTH into your thermostat, and put the thermostats probe on the UTH itself. Set the thermostat to something like 98 degrees, and monitor your temps to see what they get to. If the temps in your cage get to your desired temperature, perfect! If not, adjust the thermostat until you hit the right temps. Once that's set, you should be good.

Sound right? I was trying to clear it up a bit, lol. :)

Yep

Ok this is something that i need to start doing because as of now i only have the temp and humidity readings for the cold side of the tank.

So for me to get this working i need:
-one thermostat(For the controling of the UTH so that it does not go over the temp that i enter into the thermostat)

-and one temp probe that goes in the tank on the hot side where the snake will be laying. Which means i should go to home depot or someting and just pick up a temp gauge with a robe on it.

My question is does anyone know of a site where i could buy a thermostat online, im not looking to sped millions a dollars but i would like one that i know will work. Any suggestions would be very helpful thanks.

http://www.bigappleherp.com/Reptile_...ollers_27.html

http://www.mgreptiles.com/thermomain.html

Those are the places I'd buy one from. :)

I was wondering, and this may sound stupid but am going to ask it anyway. But if you have the correct belly temps for the tank then would the ambient temp in the tank really matter? I say this because if you have the UTH's hooked to a thermostat then the snake will always be able to have the perfect temp to "suck" its heat from. So wouldn't lets say putting UTH's along the whole underside of the tank really be the best way to ensure that you have the most accurate temps for your hot side and your cooler side?