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    Re: First ball python!!

    If you refuse to purchase a thermostat because you cannot afford $50, please at least go to your local hardware store and buy a dimmer. It will cost you $10 and it will at least limit the electricity that can make it to the heat pad and will prevent it from getting too hot. All you do is plug it into the wall, plug the pad into it, and set it according to the temp you read with your temp gun (which you DESPERATELY NEED when you own reptiles!).

    I speak from experience on this. Zoomed isn't trustworthy as far as spikes go. When I first switched to heat pads, the person who told me to do so neglected to mention the importance of a thermostat or other type of regulation and I learned the hard way which is NOT A GOOD TIME. I could have lost that animal, but I was incredibly lucky and she pulled through just fine after a long period of TLC. I could always post some horrific photos of her sloughing belly if you want me to, if that will help drive the point home.

    I didn't read this entire thread because holy 16 pages, but I needed to make a comment about the "it never gets hot enough here for the snake to get burned on a heat pad" remark you were making before. If your ambient room temp is 85F your snake is probably not going to burn itself on a heat pad because it won't need the heat pad to regulate to a comfortable temp. If your ambient room temperature is COLD (like in your basement in the great white north) your snake is going to cling to the heatpad and remain sitting on it until its belly is burned off.
    If you don't want to buy a light, get a space heater to keep the room at 80F. REGULATE THE HEAT PAD SOMEHOW. Seriously, again, even buy a dimmer, because you always think "this would never happen to me! my snake will never get burned!" until it's too late and you find a cooked animal one day.

    Please learn from other people's mistakes and take the advice that those of us with actual experience are giving you. We aren't throwing advice at you to make you feel bad or because we think it's a fun time to give people bad advice, it's because we know what that animal needs and we care enough to try and ensure that it gets exactly that.
    Otherwise, why post on a forum full of educated, informed, and experience keepers that didn't get their first ball python a week ago?

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    Sometimes It Hurts... PitOnTheProwl's Avatar
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    Lost cause.
    I am sorry for Marshall.
    I am going to use what little self control I have on this subject to just let this post die.
    Belly burns and the smell of cooked snakes suck.
    Peace out........

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    Telling it like it is! Stewart_Reptiles's Avatar
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    As I said before you can lead the horse to the water....

    And since Elvis has left the building
    I've decided to leave the forum.
    , and we are not accomplishing anything here anymore time to put this one to rest.
    Deborah Stewart


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