Final enclosure pictures

[denisthemenace]

Final photos... i just recieved the new UTH (i think i got the wrong one) Exo-terra Desert UTH but ill manage.

[denisthemenace]

waiting on POSITIVE feedback ...

[daniel1983]

Looks good.....all but the placement of your thermostat probes(if that is what I am seeing on top of your substrate). You do not want them to be able to be moved around by the snake. They should be attached to your heating element.

[denisthemenace]

i cant attach them to the sides of the viv because they dont have direct heat flow from the pad to the prode, since the mats are placed slightly further away from the walls.. more towards the middle. I wont what my thermostat reading cooler temps while the center is going to be hot enough, resulting in extremely high temps. I placed the probe where it will have the most precise reading.

[daniel1983]

I really could not understand most of that......Attach the probes to your UTHs, then adjust your thermostat to get the appropriate temperature in the enclosure.

I don't think it is a good idea to have the probes sitting out in the open like that. those probes will be all over the enclosure when you get a snake in there. Attach them to something at least.

[denisthemenace]

ok how should i attach them to my UTHs? ... if i do the probs are going to be reading the set temp early and turning off early.. but the floor heat in the viv with that layer of aspen is going to be much cooler. So if the thermostat is going to be set at 93 (for example) .. the probe will read it before it actually gets to 93 in the viv itself and shut the thermostat off. Leaving the enclosure at 87 or so. What im doing with the probes is reading the floor temp of the viv (belly heat) so i know exactly what temps the snake is house under and exactly how much heat its recieving from the UTHs

[Boarder4l154]

I think what daniel is trying to say is attach your probes to the UTH to get an accurate reading, then adjust the temperature on the thermostat (higher in your case) so that the temps in the viv are correct.

[MedusasOwl]

I've been a bit confused by how to secure the probe for my T-stat too. I don't really want to put tape in his enclosure...

[denisthemenace]

well the probes come with suction cups .. i could attach the suction cup to the floor of the enclosure? if that would be best. Then the probe would prob be half covered with aspen because it would be positioned horizontaly

[daniel1983]

since ball pythons tend to like to 'burrow' in their substrate sometimes....you want the bottom of the tub to read around 94-95 degrees which generally transulates to a substrate surface temperature of 92-93. If you have the surface of the substrate set to 95 deg....it could possibly be 100 deg on the bottom of the enclosure and that is not good if your snake digs down and gets right up against it.

If you have a probe just 'flapping around not attached to anything' inside the enclosure.....your snake will move it. If the snake lifts it off of the ground then your t-stat is reading the air temp instead of the UTH temp...the thermostat will be put enough power to the heating element to get the air temperature up to what you wanted your hot spot to be. That is not good.

I would do away with the suction cups and get some aluminum tape. Tape the thermostat probe to UTH then adjust the thermostat to get the proper temperature in the enclosure. This will allow you to acheive a more consistant temperature and keep you from frying your snake.