92F and 78F...As close as I can get (help)

I have a sterilite tub with a controlled UTH, .75" of Aspen, no overhead light or heat.
Humidity is steady now at 59%

The warm side is 92 F under the aspen in the warm hide.
The cool side is 78 F ambient and in the cool hide.

The Room temp stays at 75.5 F

I have to work on my computer in there so I really don't want to raise the room temp (I live in Oregon and 75 is hot for us)

Is this going to be close enough for healthy living quarters?

Thanks to everyone for the help and guidance so far!!!

I know a lot of people swear by 80 degrees cool side, but the Barkers in their book say down to upper 70's is fine. I shoot for 80, anyone have any first-hand experience?

You could try a 25 watt "party light" (blue/purple/red bulb available for $1.00 at pretty much anywhere) just kind of pointing down at his tub to warm the air around it. Obviously don't melt it and don't cook him, but this could work. You may have to mess around with the right distance, get one of those clamp on domes. Warming one side of the tub could kick up the cool side that extra 2 degrees.

JonV

That's fine dude. I used to average 79-83 cool side and 90-94 warm side. My snake is as healthy as it gets. Right now my cool side is only 70 and he's still fine (my 2nd UTH failed! :mad:)

You are fine. During the breeding cycles some breeders drop the temps down at night for their snakes into the 70's and that is hot side temps.

You should be fine - my apartment is also cool, and the cool side of my enclosures is upper 70's as well. Try not to let it drop much more and your snake should be fine!

Thanks for the input everyone. I figured he could just move to somewhere in the middle for a warmer but not too warm spot.

Thanks,

NC

As with all other responses, your snake ought to do well~~~ especially with all those negative ions coming off the water at the coast!!! What beach are you near?? We love getting over the mountains and going to the coast!!!! :D

Actually I am in Portland, however I just put "The Beach" down in the profile because I am getting ready to move to Charleston, SC.
And I figured I might forget to change it.
:D

OMG, you tease!!!! :tears:
Seriously, SC is a far cry from Portland!!! :rofl:

What do you mean?

Have you been to SC?

You are starting to sound as if you are going to make my bad list. Yes I have been there, I lived there for 20 years of my life, along with NC 4 years, AZ 4 years, TX 2 years, and somewhere in the desert (Iraq/Saudi Arabia/Turkey) While in the USAF.

Not going to start arguing about how great this place is or that place, all have good points and bad, including Iraq. So I will stop this conversation before it even gets going.

However, I would like to say thanks for all of the help from you all so far. It has made the process seamless.

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You could try adding another piece of flexwatt on the cold side. But the ambients need to be up too. I shoot for 92 to 94 and 82 to 84 with an ambient of 82 degrees.


As far as the SC deal. Maybe she meant that its on the opposite end of the country? I've never been to South or North Carolina. I hear there's some good scenery though. I work with a lot of bike riders that have been through there.

I don't think she meant SC would be a bad place to live.

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Originally Posted by Surfer

You are starting to sound as if you are going to make my bad list. Yes I have been there, I lived there for 20 years of my life, along with NC 4 years, AZ 4 years, TX 2 years, and somewhere in the desert (Iraq/Saudi Arabia/Turkey) While in the USAF.

Not going to start arguing about how great this place is or that place, all have good points and bad, including Iraq. So I will stop this conversation before it even gets going.

However, I would like to say thanks for all of the help from you all so far. It has made the process seamless.

:salute:

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I've lived there too and it is very different from Portland and that's what I was saying. :D In fact, I was born and grew up (until I was an adult) on the east coast all over it!! Lived for a bit in Fiji and lived for a bit in Brasil too! I agree, all had things I liked and things not so much!

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

You could try adding another piece of flexwatt on the cold side. But the ambients need to be up too. I shoot for 92 to 94 and 82 to 84 with an ambient of 82 degrees.


As far as the SC deal. Maybe she meant that its on the opposite end of the country? I've never been to South or North Carolina. I hear there's some good scenery though. I work with a lot of bike riders that have been through there.

I don't think she meant SC would be a bad place to live.

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Thanks for watching my back and thinking the best of another forum member :handshake

I hope not! LOL. Sorry if I am seeming a little defensive. Since I moved to Portland I have had way too many people just go off on the rednecks of the south and I get slightly offended. I don't make fun of the people here. Also I am going through a divorce and a little on edge lately, sorry. That is the reason for the big move really, I have no family here. Sorry once again if I jumped to conclusions but that is the usual response I get from Oregonians. AZ and TX, not so much, just here really, don't know why that is???

Anyway, thanks again for the help.

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Originally Posted by Surfer

I hope not! LOL. Sorry if I am seeming a little defensive. Since I moved to Portland I have had way too many people just go off on the rednecks of the south and I get slightly offended. I don't make fun of the people here. Also I am going through a divorce and a little on edge lately, sorry. That is the reason for the big move really, I have no family here. Sorry once again if I jumped to conclusions but that is the usual response I get from Oregonians. AZ and TX, not so much, just here really, don't know why that is???

Anyway, thanks again for the help.

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All is good and I'm sorry for the difficulties you're facing right now. Attitudes are attitudes and people own them everywhere. As for redneck stuff~ don't know. I live in Bend (not too long ago it was a sleepy little cattle town) and have a ranch in eastern Oregon (major cattle and horse place). So, yeah, you were a little off if you thought that's where I was coming from!! :rofl:
But, like I said, Portland is very different from SC and you've just exemplified one way- sorry it was a bad way :tears: The only time I go to Portland is to take one of my kids to OHSU or on my way to my yearly trip to the beach!!
Anyway, all is good!! I hope for you happier days; family is soooo important :gj:

Ooops, I forgot to add~ Portland is not all of Oregon....please don't leave this state thinking we're all a bunch of nimrods!! You maybe haven't been east of the Cascades!! :oops: