New to snakes.. need help
Hi I'm a new bp owner. My 4 yr old daughter was able to pick our new pet and she wanted a snake. My snake is only about 85g. It has fed for me twice and tomorrow is feeding day. I'm feeding it a mouse hopper weekly and so far so good.
I've been doing pretty good keeping temps and humidity where it should be in my glass tank. I have two heating pads one on each side under each hide. Both on thermostats. One is set to 87°f and the other is set to 79°f. I also have a day night light on the hot side. It is set to a 12 hr. timers. I have a digital thermometer. It says 77.5°f ambient, 87.6°f and 64% humidity. I've noticed both fluctuating but I just plugged the heating pads in a couple hrs ago.
So I'm wondering if I'm doing the feeding right or if I need to change anything and if I'm heating correctly.
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Your temperature is ok. Humidity also ok. It can drop to 60%. When shedding increase it to 70%-75%
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My digital thermometer probe is right next to the probe for the heating pad thermostat. Both under the hot side hide. Then I have the actual temp gage on the other side of the tank for the ambient temp. When I woke up this morning my thermoter for the hot side said 100 but the thermostat says 87. I immediately pulled my snake out and trying to figure out what's going on. I'll try to figure out how to attach pictures
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Originally Posted by
Amanda1987
My digital thermometer probe is right next to the probe for the heating pad thermostat. Both under the hot side hide.
the thermostat probe should NOT be inside the enclosure. it can be moved, urinated/defecated on, come in contact with water, which can cause an inaccurate reading, resulting in a heat spike or drop. the thermostat probe should be sandwiched between the outside bottom of the enclosure and the UTH where it has very little chance of moving or having any variables which can fluctuate the temperature.
if you have a UTH that is adhesive, you can use aluminum tape to adhere the thermostat probe to the underside of the UTH, or veeerrry carefully pull down a corner of the UTH and slip the probe inside. be VERY careful pulling up the UTH as they are NOT meant to be removed and you can easily damage the internals.
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forgot to mention: do not tape over the probe head itself if you're attaching it to the underside of the UTH, rather you tape over the insulated wire.
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Should I move the indoor out door probe I have on the hot side as well? The cord isn't long enough to go from inside the tank on the cool side to the outside of the tank to the hot side. I haven't had a problem with it moving. I had the cord buried from the cool side where the gage is to the other side of the tank words the hot side
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I just can't help but love this diagram every time I see it. Thanks tttaylorrr for sharing and thanks PitOnTheProwl for the original