Temp guns, folks...why don't YOU have one???

Ok i don't know what i would do without my temp guns first and formost. Second a gift of a temp gun has been one of my best gift ideas. We have several temp guns in the house and several more in my fiances work van. as was stated before it is extremely important to check surface temps. you wouldn't grab a pot on the stove and pick it up because the ambient around it is 70 degrees would you burns hurt. so checking the temp at the bottom surface of your tank is a great way to save a very expensive vet visit to save your snake. I don't think its critical to own one but definately a good recommendation. We just had a heat pad fail in a tank and it was at 134 degrees. Sure it felt hot but the ambient was only at 85 degrees. We almost lost a snake due to a faulty heat pad. I have since decided to put my tstat probes directly over the flexwatt or heatpad. It was a mistake by me but without my temp gun to check surface temp i never would have noticed so someone saying it not a cheap tool i ask what is my wild caught extreme reduced pattern worth to me. Priceless. Kind of like a mastercard commercial. OK i have rambled on long enough about this. by the way my fiance says work bought him a new temp gun that hooks up to a computer to data log temps. its a wonderful world when work pays for the hobby.

[QUOTE=shadi11;782768 by the way my fiance says work bought him a new temp gun that hooks up to a computer to data log temps. its a wonderful world when work pays for the hobby.[/QUOTE]


I wish my work bought me stuff I would have been able to buy another $10-$13,000 last year on my snakes. Oh why are tools soo damn much, lol. To think of the things I could/would have If I spent all that on herps. :cool:

Hmm quick question???

can you get the temp inside a plastic tub from the out side or do you have to pull the tub out and then shoot the side you want (warm or cold?).

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Originally Posted by Hellix2494

Hmm quick question???

can you get the temp inside a plastic tub from the out side or do you have to pull the tub out and then shoot the side you want (warm or cold?).

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for an accurate reading, the inside.

Just a quick update - I NOW own a temp gun, thanks to a b-day present from Kara! Thanks Kara! :love:

I can't stop "shooting" things now. The incubator is spot on! :D

Karl is getting sick of it now and is now trying the "you're going to wear out the battery" line on me now.

Well think about it Robin, if you run out of snake stuff to shoot at, you can now tell Karl just exactly to the degree what temperature his pot roast Sunday dinner is at! :rofl:

So, I have been thinking about getting a temp gun, and money is tight. Are the lower priced models just as accurate as some of the quite expensive models? Ie-is a PE-1, PE-2, or some of the lower RBI tempguns reliable and accurate, so that I wont want/need to buy a better one later.

This is the one that Kara sent me - very reasonably priced:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...1&Category=303

I love mine. In fact, after I got it, I had to hide it from all of my friends as they picked it up and wanted to play with it...for hours :P

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Originally Posted by Chainsaw

Actually I think it's more that large breeders have their own site and don't have the time to deal with all the newbie questions they get as it is.

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I'm not sure how long you've been on reptile forums, but many years ago, the atmosphere was very different and the big breeders were regular posters on various forums.

I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they maintain their own sites.

As soon as the ball morph craze started and a lot of money started flowing around, along came the haters.

And now we see that most of the breeders who actually "make it" in the business don't mingle as much on the forums.

I think we're lucky that Kara still posts here.