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Re: Sahira Progression Thread
I have conquered the freaking thermostat I think!!! Well, kind of.
It has stayed steadily between 88-90 (on the warm side) for 24 hours now instead of constantly dipping and spiking. Plus I figured out how to set an audible alarm if it ever gets too far out of range. If anyone is wondering, InkBird thermostats have the most confusing and difficult to read/understand directions EVER. It was kind of mid range in price between the Jumpstart thermostats and like a full blown Herpestat so I thought it was a good compromise between the two. At this point I think I made a mistake in that decision.
It came with two places to put a plug. Supposedly the second plug can be used for either a heating, cooling, or humidity element depending on the type of sensor you buy. The options are "temperature sensor" or "humidity sensor". However, after reading the d@mn directions for the umpteenth time, it looks like the second plug has to be for a "cooling" element or a humidity element. So far I can't seem to find a way to do this where it monitors two heating elements. If I let it think the second thing is a cooling element, it will turn the secondary heating element ON when it gets too hot, which is obviously the opposite of what I want. I was hoping to plug the heat mat into that, that way she can have both ambient heat and belly heat, and the thermostat would turn one or the other off as needed to keep the temps in the right range. (The mat has obviously not been plugged in while the thermostat was acting the fool). Now I am wondering if it's even configured to work that way. It's going to take another instructions study session to figure out if it can even be done. I think I would have been better off just buying two Jumpstart thermostats, one for each element, and skipping the InkBird altogether. *sigh*
On another note, a mystery was solved yesterday. The Mystery of the Hiding Dookey. I knew that she had pooped because she no longer had her bulge going on, and there was a random short lived humidity spike, So I KNEW she had pooped. But when I looked in her enclosure, I couldn't find it. I looked in all her foliage, in her humid hide, behind the rocks, under the vines, etc. No poo. She's on coco fibers so I figured maybe it just got absorbed or something? But then this weekend when I was lifting her warm side hide a bit to anchor the heat sensor under it, low and behold, she did a huge poo in her hide! I thought I had read somewhere that they usually don't go in their hides, but obviously that was either incorrect information or else Sahira is just an exceptionally sloppy lady LMAO. I didn't want to bug her too much since she just ate on Saturday, but I removed the big lumps real quick and will do a partial substrate change probably this evening or first thing tomorrow morning.
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Re: Sahira Progression Thread
Ha! Mine poops in his hide every stinkin time!!!
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She looks fine to me, & very cute daughter too, btw. I'll admit to being terribly ticklish when snakes do that to me too...Oooo!
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Re: Sahira Progression Thread
Very nice Pied, always move to see the kiddos getting into the hobby as well.
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They do grow up pretty fast, don't they? At least they don't go off to college...
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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She’s a beautiful little girl! I tend to add crystals into some of my snake enclosures as well. Is she your first? Be warned they’re like chips, it’s almost impossible to stop at one! Can I ask why you feed live?
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