Tank requirment questions

[Sunnieskys]

UTH do not contribute to ambient temps they are strictly for belly heat. I put my accurite digital hygrometer/thermometer in the front middle of my cage. That make it a little warmer on the hot side and a little cooler on the cool side. My heat gun measures the temp at the heat mat, on top of the hot hide and inside the hot hide on the substrate. My hygrometer/thermometer stays at 60% and between 80-81. I don't use a space heater. I have baseboard heating which never goes above 72 if ever. If you set up your tanks correctly you won't have an issue.

[Jakethesnake69]

Athena loves it and utilizes every bit of it any wires seen are strictly temp and humidity probes except the one wire for CHE thermostat. I also have small bowl of water under CHE to aid in humidity some.dont mind the dual dial gauge it’s more a room temp tool.

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[Dylan_]

UTH do not contribute to ambient temps they are strictly for belly heat. I put my accurite digital hygrometer/thermometer in the front middle of my cage. That make it a little warmer on the hot side and a little cooler on the cool side. My heat gun measures the temp at the heat mat, on top of the hot hide and inside the hot hide on the substrate. My hygrometer/thermometer stays at 60% and between 80-81. I don't use a space heater. I have baseboard heating which never goes above 72 if ever. If you set up your tanks correctly you won't have an issue.

I know the uth wont give any ambient tempature but im having an issue during night keeping temps higher my temp gun reads floor in the 80s on warm side and i think 90 on top of hide 85 ish inside hide 90ish on glass where uth is but the cool side there some spots that i found at low 70s which im not liking at all

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[Dylan_]

Well ranges from 86ish to 90 on glass where uth is

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[Jakethesnake69]

I see pretty consistent surface temps of 77-78 on cool side and heated side is steady at 87-89 most likely because I use an on/off thermostate and not a pulse type. It’s set to come on at 1 degree of temp drop from set temp. I see no variance from thermo setting and inside surface of glass, it’s set at 88. My CHE for ambient temps is at 80 it goes up to about 83 and cool side sees 76-77. Athena seems to thrive best in these conditions.

[Sunnieskys]

I know the uth wont give any ambient tempature but im having an issue during night keeping temps higher my temp gun reads floor in the 80s on warm side and i think 90 on top of hide 85 ish inside hide 90ish on glass where uth is but the cool side there some spots that i found at low 70s which im not liking at all

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Your hot side is fine. Move your heat lamp a little words the middle and it should raise your cool side a little. Use a CHE (on a dimmer)

[Dylan_]

I dont have a che i have 2 exo terra basking bulbs one of which is 150w on hot side and 100 watt on cool side reason im using exo terra is they dont get as hot as zoomed i tried tonuse a zoo med 150w and i ended up with 100f basking spot on top of my hide lol

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[Sunnieskys]

Are they white bulbs or red/black bulbs?

[Jakethesnake69]

Side note on dimmer switch, this may be brand type specific but I don’t see temps below 110 with the dimmers on a CHE I have but I have only used one type. Not reptile specific.

[Dylan_]

I was gojng to put another 150w exo terra on the other side butni decided not to because i dont need to create 2 basking areas so im not sure what to do bwcause if i put another 150w on there whats going to happen is the hide ontop of the cool side will hit about 90f on the top of the hide

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