Temp. Graidiante, why have it?

I honestly have no clue to what the hell is going on in my tank at this point. the UTH is off and my bedding is at 90 degrees on the warm side, last night with UTH off it was 88 degrees and a couple nights before it was 83 degrees. When I turn the UTH on and the dimmer all the way off the temps go all over the damn place and are WAY too high.

I am def pleased to announce, however, that he was in his water bowl this morning when I left for work, was hidding out in his hide on the warm side when I got home from work, then when I got home from the movies with all the lights off and just his heating like on, he was back in his water bowl. So he is def getting alot more comfortable with his home and is making use of what he has to get comfortable.

Temps right now are Warm side 90 degrees, cool side 81 degrees, humidity is at a :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:ty 25%......Humidity is the devil.

Thanx for getting that qoute rab backed me up :rockon:

Well, sorry to sound abrupt, but you should have had your temps and caging conditions Right-On before even buying a snake. Now the poor animal has to live in substandard conditions..
There is no worry in my house about any snake burning itself.. that's what thermostats/rheostats are for.. they get their thermal gradient and can thermoregulate as they please.

Well a picture's worth a thousand words so they say. This is Orlah, a mature female BP. This picture shows, but really cannot fully show, how bad the result of a dorsal burn is. She was like this when we found her in a pet store as an unwanted pet somebody dumped there. Our very experienced herp vet can only surmise that at some point in Orlah's past life she was housed with an exposed and very hot bulb, curled up against it and literally peeled the skin off her spine when she moved away from the bulb - a quite horrific and I'm sure painful thing to experience.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...lahMay2006.jpg

My very basic understanding is that snake's have such linear bodies and the way that their nerves transmit information, they can start to burn before the message gets sent fast enough to the brain to get the heck out of there (I said it was a basic understanding lol).

Once your snake has what it needs...a stable and correct environment...it will likely do what it needs to do as far as thermoregulating and exploring it's home. Changes, even good ones, cause stress in snakes so that's to be expected while you tweak this enclosure.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Humidity is the devil.

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Actually, lights are the devil for keeping humidity up. ;)

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Temps right now are Warm side 90 degrees, cool side 81 degrees, humidity is at a :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:ty 25%......Humidity is the devil.

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You could try to get a bigger water bowl, that should increase the humidity. Also, it sounds like you should get a thermostat. Changing temps are very stressful to your snake.

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Originally Posted by casperca

You could try to get a bigger water bowl, that should increase the humidity. Also, it sounds like you should get a thermostat. Changing temps are very stressful to your snake.

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Dont even think it would be possible to fit a bigger water bowl even if i wanted to..

True... I don't know what to tell you other than to mist it down or get a humidifier for the room that your snake is in..

One question though, where are your hides? :confused:

Hi sw204me,


How deep is your substrate? it may be it is so deep it is effectively insulating the uth. Also remember the substrate itself will hold temperature for a small amount of time so you do need to allow the temps to settle before being confident that thery are correct.

What other heating sources do you have in your tank? You really need to get this nailed as it certainly can't be doing your snake any good. :(

As to the humidity id try getting a smaller waterbowl ( as an extra - you can keep the inland sea you already have. :P ) and place it at the warm end to see if that can help.


dr del

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Originally Posted by casperca

True... I don't know what to tell you other than to mist it down or get a humidifier for the room that your snake is in..

One question though, where are your hides? :confused:

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they were taken out for that picture as it was a few sec after he was done eating, I changed out his water and he went right for the fresh water and sat in it, and this was my first time seeing him do that so i snapped some pics.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...e/000_0015.jpg

In the pic you can see the two hides in the back corners, one on the warm side one on the cool side, they face each other.


As for how deep it is, prolly about half an inch. Right now im using a CHE and a UTH. however, I decided to try something out and turned the red heating bulb off and have ONLY the UTH and the bedding is exactely 96.0 degrees. the cool side is 81.4 degrees. With just the Bulb on it was 90 degrees.

As for getting a smaller bowl and putting it on the warm side, I was told in another post to move the water AWAY from the CHE to raise the humidity.