Please Help! My ZooMed Terrarium is too cold:(

[STjepkes]

If you look hard enough (not very hard), you'll find plenty of "I didnt think i needed a t-stat, pls help with burn" posts. Don't be one of them, dont risk it.

Also yes, you definitely want a way to directly regulate your heat source, but a simple rheostat would surely do just fine. I only use Herpstat thermostats personally, but rheostats can work great for tanks/UTHs, and are so much more affordable. You can also run 2 elements with this, IF THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.


Great buy: http://www.reptilebasics.com/thermos...omed-rheostat/

[LittleTreeGuy]

Not to sound mean here, but I will add this... I have a digital thermometer like the one you have posted, the yellow one. Mine has read inaccurate by as much as 15 degrees at times. When I was setting up my new tank, I was over obsessive about getting things right. I had two accurites, that one, and a temp gun. The two accurites and temp gun were all within 2 degrees of each other. The yellow one was 15 degrees off.

Just be cautious.

[MercedesBenz]

Also yes, you definitely want a way to directly regulate your heat source, but a simple rheostat would surely do just fine. I only use Herpstat thermostats personally, but rheostats can work great for tanks/UTHs, and are so much more affordable. You can also run 2 elements with this, IF THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.


Great buy: http://www.reptilebasics.com/thermos...omed-rheostat/

I am getting it from Big Al's

https://www.bigalspets.ca/repti-temp-rheostat.html

[MercedesBenz]

Not to sound mean here, but I will add this... I have a digital thermometer like the one you have posted, the yellow one. Mine has read inaccurate by as much as 15 degrees at times. When I was setting up my new tank, I was over obsessive about getting things right. I had two accurites, that one, and a temp gun. The two accurites and temp gun were all within 2 degrees of each other. The yellow one was 15 degrees off.

Just be cautious.

Thx I got this today lol

[chrid16371]

Just make sure under the substrate on top of glass over the heat mat is no hotter than 95. The reason you want to check under substrate is bc snakes will burrow. Also make sure you check all over the heat mat bc temp can be higher in other spots, the hottest spot should not be above 95. If it is over 95 you will need to unplug it until you get the thermostat and use a 40-60w red bulb until you get it or keep the room around 83-85. If you use a red bulb bc the uth is to hot then you will want to check temp on top of substrate right where the middle of the bulb hits and raise the lamp higher off cage if its hotter than 92. The rheostat you ordered works like a dimmer so it doesn't automatically adjust which means if your room temp changes you will have to raise or lower the rheostat yourself so make sure you check your temps a few times a day.

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[MercedesBenz]

Your cool side temps look fine to me. Since you are providing a hot spot, mid-70s are as low as I feel comfortable with, and it looks like that's where you're at.

With your warm side analog and probe reading at least 80 where they are placed right now, I'm almost 100% positive that the temperature on the glass right above the heat pad is well above that. See if you can move the probe to under the substrate as close to in contact with the glass directly above the heat pad as you can. It's not the best solution, as your snake will move it around, but it will give you a better idea of the actual warm side hot spot temperature. That's where the infrared thermometer comes in - you can just slide the substrate aside, aim it at the glass, and know your hot spot temp in an instant without having a probe in the tank at all.

I got her two identical hides now


When beam directly on snake body:


OR



When beam directly on bedding:




However, for the cold side I'm only getting 70F

[Eric Alan]

Once again, aim it at THE GLASS UNDER THE SUBSTRATE DIRECTLY ABOVE THE HEAT MAT.

[MercedesBenz]

Once again, aim it at THE GLASS UNDER THE SUBSTRATE DIRECTLY ABOVE THE HEAT MAT.

137F....

[Eric Alan]

137f....

unplug the heat pad right now.

[MercedesBenz]

unplug the heat pad right now.

It's unplugged....