dominique's cage set up for the firts few months

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lend me a hand what to do better move this move that


hot side right now is 83 degress temp and 33 humidity.. cold is at 75 degress...

gotta bump up the humidity i added the foild on the top running to walmart to get a spray bottle and some black tape to tighten down the foil...r

she is hanging out nicely in her hideout on the hot side...

i have a under the tank heater plug directly into the wall and the lamp on a 500r thermomater

i have built a real nice big terrirum thats gonna go where she is now when she gets bigger ill post pics of the in another thread

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she came out to say hi

i would bump my hot side to 90-92 and cool side 80-82----also i would make sure that the hot side temps were taken from the ground not the air above!!

just my 02.

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i would bump my hot side to 90-92 and cool side 80-82----also i would make sure that the hot side temps were taken from the ground not the air above!!

just my 02.

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yeah i got the digital temp guage right at ground leval i think you can see it in the back..

yeah slowly rasing the temp on the light..dont wanna crank it up to high to fast...

but she is crawling around and climbing a whole lot now...all last night and today she was just hiding in her rock!

how do i get the humidity up..just spray some water...mist on the aspen chips??

check out the glass tank set-up in the enclosure forum---it will show you how to raise the temp (but misting will help and also spaying your substrate, but don't overdue it---also your snake looks like she/or he will be fine in that size tank for awhile---i'm not sure the size but im guessing 30gal. you don't want a tank or enclosure that is too big, it can cause stress

welcome to the forum :) ,

What are you using to measure the temps again and where in the tank are you taking them?

Because the recomended temps as pointed out tend to be 90-95 hot side but thats the basking spot temps really - where the snake can sit. Humidity is a sod to get right with large heaters like that though - possibly a humid hide might be a good idea to make sure she doesnt have any probs shedding.

Are you using an under tank heater? if so what depth is the substrate over it - it might be stopping some of the heat reaching the snake possibly.

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dashi it all to heck I really need to type faster on this forum :D

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dr del

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check out the glass tank set-up in the enclosure forum---it will show you how to raise the temp (but misting will help and also spaying your substrate, but don't overdue it---also your snake looks like she/or he will be fine in that size tank for awhile---i'm not sure the size but im guessing 30gal. you don't want a tank or enclosure that is too big, it can cause stress

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its just a 10 gallon..i have a real nice one built but not gonna put her into that till she out grows this one bredder said she be fine for 6 months to a year depending on how much we feed..

im up to 85 degrees and 25 % hunidity gonna spray down the suratest

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welcome to the forum :) ,

What are you using to measure the temps again and where in the tank are you taking them?

Because the recomended temps as pointed out tend to be 90-95 hot side but thats the basking spot temps really - where the snake can sit. Humidity is a sod to get right with large heaters like that though - possibly a humid hide might be a good idea to make sure she doesnt have any probs shedding.

Are you using an under tank heater? if so what depth is the substrate over it - it might be stopping some of the heat reaching the snake possibly.

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i have a digital temp and humid guage directly behind her hot side hide at ground leval its reading 86 degrees right now..

substrate maybe 1/2 inch

yes using undertank heater and red bulb 100 wat heat lamp above

cool well ran out to wally world and picked up an out door thermoater with a probe the sticks so i pulled the aspen bedding and placed the probe on the glass and covered it with aspen bedding wholy balls read 108 degreees~~

yeah i know this is directly on the glass but wow! well i regulated the temp on the glass down to 96 degrees and with about 1/2 inch thick bedding on top this is where her hot side hide is! should make it a nice 90-93 degree temp in there for her!

cold side is showing about 82,, got humidity up to about 52 %

and boy is she loving it huge change she is climbing all over the place not hiding all twined up in the branches very active

humidity upgrade made a big differnace i feel

thanks for all eveyones help..

wow this is an addictive hobby allready resurching whats a good morph male to get to breed her to make some intresting babies

but i gotta alot to learn!

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cool well ran out to wally world and picked up an out door thermoater with a probe the sticks so i pulled the aspen bedding and placed the probe on the glass and covered it with aspen bedding wholy balls read 108 degreees~~

yeah i know this is directly on the glass but wow! well i regulated the temp on the glass down to 96 degrees and with about 1/2 inch thick bedding on top this is where her hot side hide is! should make it a nice 90-93 degree temp in there for her!

cold side is showing about 82,, got humidity up to about 52 %

and boy is she loving it huge change she is climbing all over the place not hiding all twined up in the branches very active

humidity upgrade made a big differnace i feel

thanks for all eveyones help..

wow this is an addictive hobby allready resurching whats a good morph male to get to breed her to make some intresting babies

but i gotta alot to learn!

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Don't rely on bedding to reduce the temperature on the warm side. Your snake will get down to the bottom. Get either a dimmer or a thermostat to regulate it.

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Don't rely on bedding to reduce the temperature on the warm side. Your snake will get down to the bottom. Get either a dimmer or a thermostat to regulate it.

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i got one its a thermostate its currently sitting at 97.7 on the glass

so the higest temp it hit was 98 on the glass so if she gets down the highest temp she will see will be 98

98 is too hot! around 94 max. try to keep the warm end at least 90-94, the cool end 80-82.


too hot can be just as bad or worse than too cold!!:eek:


vaughn

If it gets waay to hot it's considerably worse in fact.


I was once told that if you keep a snake too cold it will slowly die but if you keep it too hot it will quickly die. I must stress here I'm not talking about a few degrees out though. A friend of mine's mother once cooked his snake by putting the tank in the conservatory because " she thought it would like the heat" - took less than 2 hours to kill it.

But as the O.P. has it on a thermostat his snake shouldn't be in any danger - that is why we use them afterall. Plus he's talking about directly on the glass rather than on top of the substrate so just turning it down slightly should fix things just right :)

dr del

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If it gets waay to hot it's considerably worse in fact.


I was once told that if you keep a snake too cold it will slowly die but if you keep it too hot it will quickly die. I must stress here I'm not talking about a few degrees out though. A friend of mine's mother once cooked his snake by putting the tank in the conservatory because " she thought it would like the heat" - took less than 2 hours to kill it.

But as the O.P. has it on a thermostat his snake shouldn't be in any danger - that is why we use them afterall. Plus he's talking about directly on the glass rather than on top of the substrate so just turning it down slightly should fix things just right :)

dr del

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i got it takeing the reading directly on the glass with teh substarte over it a good bit!

i turned it down reading between 90-94

and the cold side is around 75-80,

i switched the light to the other side to help boost the heat up there a lil,

only have the light on real low setting just to warm the area now and then so it dosnt drop below 75,

got the humidity right around 50%

just mist it a lil bit each time after i handel her