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[Janandvic]

Hi

So Happy to have found this forum.

We live in the UK South East. Been keeping BP's for about 6 months, totally fallen in love with them.

We keep ours in wooden Vivs. and up until recently on heatmats. have digital thermometers in each one.
been finding it hard to maintain a static temp of 90 but that is probably due to the incorrect habistats we are using. Learning all the time.

Hubby decided to move over to ceramic heat and changed the habistats over to pulse ones. we now can maintain an ambient temp in the vivs of around 88, with a slightly cooler end but only by a couple of degrees.

My question is should we lower the ambient heat and have a heatmat in the viv to give the snakes a hot spot with the correct habistat or carry on as we are?
all our snakes are healthy and eating well.

any advice would help us

thanks
Jan

[Inarikins]

88 degree ambient is much too hot. You want a hot spot of 88-92 and the cool end to be in the 78-82 degree range.

[200xth]

If you have an ambient 88 with a few degrees dip at the other end (range of 84/85 to 88 I'm guessing), you should be fine. You could probably cool that down a couple more degrees without problem.

No hotspot needed at those ambient temps.

[Grim8899]

My guys like it different.

.my one guy I keep his hot spot round 93-95 hot side temp86-88,occasionally bumps up to 90.. But he only stays on his hot side,all the time since day 1 I've had him.

my other guy I keep his hot spot around 90-92 but he seems to lay on both sides. Temps are the same,around 86-90

i keep both heat bulbs and UTHs for my enclosures,year round due to the cooler seasons and then the hotter seasons i have the AC on..so year round bulbs and UTHs are going and necessary.