my ball pythons cage temp

his cage is 87 degrees on the hot end and the fool eand it 77 so is that fine and i have one of thoes under tank heaters and they don't have a dial to make the temp higher so how do i make it so its more warmer

I have found that Kitty likes his warm side to be about 93, sometimes higher and the cool side about 85. He does that best at these temps. You may want to up yours a bit. I started out with an undertank heater only and it wasn't warm enough. His temps were about what yours are, but he got a RI (mild case) so I learned and raised his tempuratures, no troubles like that since. It is harder to keep the humidity up at the higher temps though.

how do i rais the temp

Ideal temps are 88-92 °F on the warm side and 78-80 °F on the cool. What are the temps like in the room where you keep your bp? The ambient ( background ) temps of the room where the cage is kept has a lot to do with the temps inside the cage.

the temp in my room is usualy about 84 or 85

I should've thought of this before .. but .. what are you using to measure your temps and humidity? Do you have part of the screen top covered? As for raising the temps of the cage, a low wattage red light might be handy. However with temps that high in the room where you keep the bp, your temps should be just fine. You are a bit low, but not really bad. Does the temp of the cage change throughout the day?

you might need to recheck those temps, if your room temp is 84-85. how is your cool side 77 ???

thanks

vaughn

my ank is like 92 right now at this second

i meant double check your room temp and your cool side temps.
usually my cool side temps are within 1 or 2 deg. of my room temps. ( if your room is 84-85, would not the cool side of your tank be close to that and not 77) it doesn't hurt to double check things. i'm a hvac service tech and i check temperatures all day long and i still double and triple check my cages every day and night. my opinion is that if your cool side is 77 your ambient room temps are close to that. all this aside somethings to try to warm up the cool side might be to decrease ventilation, cover up the screen top. i think 76-80 for the cool side is ok, provided your snake goes to the hot side to warm up. make she it is not choosing the cool side all the time for security reasons. provide multiple hides in both hot/cool sides, snakes will choose the temp they need if everything else is in line.

hope this may help

thanks

vaughn

ya my room is brobaly 80 degrees but i think my tank temps is fine the warm end is 92 and the cool is 81

my freind told me to put a wood piece inder the heater so the heat could go back up becase i have like a 8 inch gap from the bottome of the tank where the heater is so it brought my tank heat up and has been at 92 for like 2 hours now

You had an 8 inch gap between the heatpad and the tank? Wow, how did you expect the heat to reach the tank? lol

it mor like 4 or 3 but i used some electric tape and some heat one soi taped it to the tank and they won't melt

the temp in may cage now is like 88 is that fine or no, when it drops like that can my snake be in harm or is it fine and the cool end is about 77 if not then i am screwed

You taped what to the tank? The heat pad? If so, don't expect it to stick too long. ;) Whatever's raising the tank so high up, just remove it. Usually you only need maybe an inch gap between the heat pad and the tank bottom for air flow. Right now, since weather changed a bit, my room got a bit colder so it's around 75 degrees. So to keep the temps up, I just slid the pad under the tank, and removed the blocks of wood I had to prop it up before. There's maybe less than half an inch of air flow space now. Keeps my temps nice.

Edit: Oh, didn't see your second post.(btw, if you have to add something to a post, just hit the edit button on your previous post so you dont have to double post. :))
Those temps should be fine for now. I don't like having my cool end drop 80 for too long, but for an overnight drop that's fine. I'm sure they'll go back up next day. Since it gets cooler outside, there's a natural temperature drop of a few degrees in the house, so your temps will probably drop a few degrees at night. That's fine.

i know how to edit i just didn't want to

Why? More posts for post count?

nope just too lazy and hey you guys my temp is starting from 93 in the afternoon and at night droping to like 62 how bo i bump up the heat more

62 at night? Are you turning off the heat? Does your air conditioning run more at night?