Tragic day for my snakes.

[BBotteron]

So sorry for your lose I have 3 jump starts with 2 snakes. One is just a backup just in case something like this would happen but now I'm thinking of just getting a herpstat taking the still in package jumpstart back and selling off the others...


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[tcutting]

Exactly the one i was gonna buy, but i received advice from people here and i went for the Jumpstart


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I ran it for 5 years no problem. I wish i had at least some sort of alerting or monitoring to know. everything was reporting fine, although i did not have digital on each tub. not that it would have done anything since I was away for the day.

I was working on a caramel glow project and would frequently use the caramel male and the pastel female to teach my daughters friends about snakes. This was like losing my show case core snakes. Im just so upset about it.

[EL-Ziggy]

@ OP- I'm really sorry for your family's loss. I'm sure this lesson will impress upon the rest of us the importance of maintaining and regularly monitoring our husbandry and having the proper equipment. I've used several hydrofarm thermostats for the last 4 years without any issues. I use Ultratherm UTHs which purportedly don't get hot enough to harm your snake even in the event of a t-stat failure. I also check my hot spot temps with a temp gun twice daily. We can't prevent every tragedy but we can take every precaution.

[John1982]

Sorry for your loss.

[FlynnTheBP]

I'm so sorry, that's terrible. I keep/breed fish and people never understand why I'm upset when one of my older ones (I have a couple that are nearly a decade old) dies, so I totally understand. I made a similar mistake with my thermostat a few years ago. One of my leopard gecko vivs got up to 137 degrees Fahrenheit and the only reason two of my breeders survived was because they buried themselves under the water bowl. It really tore me up knowing what they'd gone through. So sorry, and I hope your other snakes do well.

[BR8080]

So sorry to hear the news. I know what you meant when you said people just don't understand. There's really no explaining our passion for reptiles to some that have that irrational fear. I get some people just don't like reptiles, but when some use words like "slimy and disgusting" to describe them, their ignorance infuriates me.

As others have stated, and I hope it never happens to me, it appears as though Herpstat is the only way to go for that fail-safe in the "off" position.

[Sauzo]

Sorry for your loss. I personally only use Herpstats as they have safeties to them that you can set to do different things. Anything from shutting off power to the port in question to shutting down the whole unit. And either from some error or from a user set min and max temp setting. Plus if the unit has some catastrophic disaster, it will fail in the closed position which means no power is supplied unlike a lot who when they fail, it goes wide open full power.

[highqualityballz]

I was using https://www.amazon.com/Zilla-Reptile...ank+thermostat

Theres your problem. If there is something you don't want to skimp on its definitely a thermostat. I recommend vivarium electronics and spyder robotics. I honestly wouldn't trust anything else.

[cchardwick]

So sorry to hear about your loss, I can't even imagine. I started with the Hydrofarm / Jumpstart thermostats until one of them failed in the on position. Luckly I didn't damage any of my snakes. I quickly upgraded to two Herpstat 4 and one VE-300, so now I have one controller for each of my 9 levels in my rack. I also have separate high / low temperature alarms that let me know if the temps are off. If the power cord comes unplugged from a Herpstat no matter how good it is it won't alarm, but my backup alarms will.

My backups are cheap and I actually had one of them fail and scrambled the LCD screen, but no harm is done. They are cheap backups. My thermostats and temp alarms cost an arm and a leg (about $1,000) but it's much better than the alternative and gives me peace of mind, many of my snakes are worth that. By the way, I also put a temp alarm on my rodent freezer. I accidently unplugged it once and the alarm saved all my rodents!



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[DLena]

I'm so sorry. I had this happen with an electric heater in my viv room last winter. I've learned that every heating device needs to be on a thermostat. I use all Herpstats.