New Ball not feeding

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Originally Posted by Shera

Ok, that's not going to tell you the floor temps, I would highly suggest a probe thermometer (Often under $10 in the aquarium section), or a temp gun so you know what the actual temps are.

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okay, thanks ill get a temp gun on thursday (i need that paycheck :rolleye2:)

Until you get a thermostat unplug your UTH, if it's running unregulated it will get hot enough to burn your snake, which means a vet bill - and that's not cheap.

You're in Morgantown, I'll assume you didn't shop at Scales & Tails - and if you did, let me know so I can kick the owner because I know he knows better than to sell that setup for a ball python. Heck I buy stuff from them and it's a three hour drive one way.

You don't have to go expensive on hides, even crumpled up newspaper will work. Even the small flat-rate boxes from USPS also work, just cut off the tab that has the adhesive before you fold it up and put it in the tank. If it gets soiled toss it and make another one, they're free after all, and you're obviously on a budget.

Before I wised up I bought those wood hides too. I'm going to burn most of them in my wood stove this winter, as that's about all they're good for.

There are a ton of herpers in Morgantown, check out the groups WV Reptiles and WV Exotics on Facebook.

Just realized the photo I included did not show up. Lets try this again. Just something to give you an idea.

http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...photo-36-1.jpg

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Until you get a thermostat unplug your UTH, if it's running unregulated it will get hot enough to burn your snake, which means a vet bill - and that's not cheap.

You're in Morgantown, I'll assume you didn't shop at Scales & Tails - and if you did, let me know so I can kick the owner because I know he knows better than to sell that setup for a ball python. Heck I buy stuff from them and it's a three hour drive one way.

You don't have to go expensive on hides, even crumpled up newspaper will work. Even the small flat-rate boxes from USPS also work, just cut off the tab that has the adhesive before you fold it up and put it in the tank. If it gets soiled toss it and make another one, they're free after all, and you're obviously on a budget.

Before I wised up I bought those wood hides too. I'm going to burn most of them in my wood stove this winter, as that's about all they're good for.

There are a ton of herpers in Morgantown, check out the groups WV Reptiles and WV Exotics on Facebook.

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okay thanks, and i got her from animal house on high street. I also see you are from the eastern panhandle, and i am as well, where are you from?

Eazzy, about your question of UTH and heat lamp...

The UTH provides underbelly heat on the hot end under the hide. This hot end needs to be close to 90 (temp gun or thermometer probe sitting right on the UTH under the substrate. All of mine are set between 92-95 (fluctuates between these ranges depending on the house temperature). I live in Florida so my house is set at 78-80 all year long.

The heat lamp may be used to raise the ambient temps if your house is set so that the air temps in the enclosure is lower than 80. In my house, the heat from the UTH is enough to keep the ambient temps around 82 for most of the year. So I don't bother with the heat lamp. Florida winters can get to freezing so the house gets cold for a few weeks. I use the heat lamp then for supplemental heat to raise the ambient temps to around 82.

Basically, you want a temperature gradient of about 10 degrees within the 82-92 range, give or take a couple degrees.

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Originally Posted by Eazyyyb

okay thanks, and i got her from animal house on high street. I also see you are from the eastern panhandle, and i am as well, where are you from?

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Inwood address but on the west side of I-81, not in town.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Inwood address but on the west side of I-81, not in town.

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cool man! im from charles town, like 10 mins from inwood

Just to make sure you are getting what bcr229 and I are saying, it seems to be getting lost in all tve other junk. You need a thermoSTAT to control the temp of your heat mat, My opinion is you should also have one to control the temp of the lamp. The thermoMETER will only tell you the temp and you need one to measure the surface temp on your heatmat. Somewhere on here is a geat write up on how to setup up a glass tank, search that out and read through it, good info.