Re: any suggestions on raising the cool side temp?
This is going to be one of those issues where everyone is going to have a different opinion. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with any of the advice you've gotten, except possibly the petco care sheet. That seems like an extreme range of temp variation to me...
Re: any suggestions on raising the cool side temp?
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Originally Posted by CntrlF8
This is going to be one of those issues where everyone is going to have a different opinion. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with any of the advice you've gotten, except possibly the petco care sheet. That seems like an extreme range of temp variation to me...
yea seems as though you're right..i went down to this local exotic petshop where i purchase my feeders and spoke with the owner and he told me not to use a heatlamp being as though it dries the air out and number 2 heatlamps arent made for snakes..so i did what he suggested and now the temps have finally dialed in at 93.6 (warm side) and 81.1 (cool side)...i appreciate everyone that had their input on this thread and especially the one that pulled that info from the NERD site.
Re: any suggestions on raising the cool side temp?
Thats the similar setup I use. I've got a 50watt night lamp over the cool side - that gets 80-85 degrees and a UTH on the hot side around 90-92. Humidity stays around 50%-60% with my screen lid covered with foil and duct tape.
I battled my temps and was debating getting a thermostat and all that good stuff but I think im gravey now. I might get some sort of refectix tape for the warm side to bump a few but its stable.
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Originally Posted by SGB_74
well i took some advice from the users which answered this blog, and woke up this morning with the cool side being at an even 70 :( so what i did was setup a 60watt blacklight over the coolside and got its temps up to 84.4 i think thats the best thing to go with. i'll post a pic of the current temps. let me know if the temps are right? i see all these post with diff temps to house your BP in..a petco caresheet i came across says 95F warm side and 78F cool side..the caresheet i came across on this site says 90F warm side and 80F coolside and now i see the post from the NERD site so is there a set temp that you should house your BP in or does it depend if you breed or whatnot..
Re: any suggestions on raising the cool side temp?
I'm liking your setup much better now. Here's my setup:
* Large UTH warm side stuck to bottom of tank.
* Small UTH stuck to bottom of tank on cool side.
* 100W Heat lamp over cool side (which is where the water dish is).
* 3 sides of tank covered with cork.
* Accu-rite sitting near the glass outside of the warm hide with the probe inside the warm hide. Because of the way I heat, the outside of the warm hide is usually the coldest spot in the tank!
* Another single temp/humidity digital thermometer on the cool side.
Both UTH's and the 100W heat lamp are connected to a lamp dimmer. Basically what I did here was adjust the wattage of the bulb until I got the right ratio of warm to cool when I connected them all to the dimmer. I can adjust all the temps up or down by a few degrees with a single setting. It has worked well because the cage temps tend to drift together as the room temperature changes.
I tend to run 80-82 ambient and 92-94 warm side. Everything fluctuates a bit with the house temp and I occasionally adjust the dimmer if it gets too far out of whack.
I don't adjust for night-time.
Re: any suggestions on raising the cool side temp?
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Originally Posted by bearhart
I'm liking your setup much better now. Here's my setup:
* Large UTH warm side stuck to bottom of tank.
* Small UTH stuck to bottom of tank on cool side.
* 100W Heat lamp over cool side (which is where the water dish is).
* 3 sides of tank covered with cork.
* Accu-rite sitting near the glass outside of the warm hide with the probe inside the warm hide. Because of the way I heat, the outside of the warm hide is usually the coldest spot in the tank!
* Another single temp/humidity digital thermometer on the cool side.
Both UTH's and the 100W heat lamp are connected to a lamp dimmer. Basically what I did here was adjust the wattage of the bulb until I got the right ratio of warm to cool when I connected them all to the dimmer. I can adjust all the temps up or down by a few degrees with a single setting. It has worked well because the cage temps tend to drift together as the room temperature changes.
I tend to run 80-82 ambient and 92-94 warm side. Everything fluctuates a bit with the house temp and I occasionally adjust the dimmer if it gets too far out of whack.
I don't adjust for night-time.
couldnt you just use the acurite by itself, by sitting it on the "cool" side you can get a reading of that temp and just run the probe to the "warm" side and you get a reading for both sides at once. i believe the "OUT" temp is the probe and the "IN" temp is where the acurite is actually placed being as though its placed on the cool side you can get a cool side reading.
Re: any suggestions on raising the cool side temp?
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Originally Posted by SGB_74
couldnt you just use the acurite by itself, by sitting it on the "cool" side you can get a reading of that temp and just run the probe to the "warm" side and you get a reading for both sides at once. i believe the "OUT" temp is the probe and the "IN" temp is where the acurite is actually placed being as though its placed on the cool side you can get a cool side reading.
Thats what I do. Unit itself goes on the cool side, and the probe on the warm side underneath his hide.
Re: any suggestions on raising the cool side temp?
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Originally Posted by SGB_74
couldnt you just use the acurite by itself, by sitting it on the "cool" side you can get a reading of that temp and just run the probe to the "warm" side and you get a reading for both sides at once. i believe the "OUT" temp is the probe and the "IN" temp is where the acurite is actually placed being as though its placed on the cool side you can get a cool side reading.
I have found that there can be some surprising gradients in there. After making any big changes I would recommend moving the main accurite unit (cool temp) around and take measurements at a few locations in the cage to make sure you are actually getting a consistent ambient temperature. In one of my earlier setups the warm hide was in the low nineties and just 6 inches away at the glass it was 75 or so.
