Those of you with BPs and corns...

[heatherhead42]

Can you run their heat tape on the same thermostat? I know that corns have slightly lower heat requirements--but it looks like they can enjoy up to 90 degrees, and it also looks like a bp can thrive with a warm side around 90... So could you set two tanks up on the same thermostat and have one suitable for a bp and one for a corn?

What if you set the corn's heat tape on the surface below the tub, and taped the bp's heat tape to the tub itself, so that at the same setting the bp's would warm the cage more than the corn's?

Has anyone played with this? I'm not seriously considering a corn snake right now, but the thought crosses my mind from time to time. It was a corn snake that wooed me over to snakes to begin with, and I still think they're awesome snakes.

And, since we spent so much money on a thermostat, it would be nice to know it could be used for future acquisitions, even if they're not bps.

Thanks,

Heather

[recycling goddess]

i think that would totally work! another thing you could do is put more substrate in the corns enclosure... so you'd have a bit more padding between the heat and the snake.

i use aspen... so i 'could' just add more to the corns.

[heatherhead42]

Oh, that's good to know. We use aspen right now, too, and have noticed that the amount of substrate definitely influences how warm the belly heat is. So that makes a lot of sense--more for the corn, less for the bp.

Thanks!

Heather

[recycling goddess]

glad to help! you've actually inspired me to add our corns to the bp rack we are building... at least they can stay in the rack until we start breeding and need the space for babies.

[TekWarren]

This is just my opinion here: I would go separate dedicated stats for different snake species. Having "similar" requirements does mean the same. I strive to provide as exact conditions as possible for individual animals. All that aside I've never owned a corn so maybe your theory would work.

[recycling goddess]

corns are not fussy about their temps or their humidity which is why so many people recommend them as a first snake.

so a corn wouldn't care at all about being "within a range" of temps.

[stangs13]

I don't put my corns on the hot side of the BP heat mat, I just have them on the cool side. IMO, the hot side of a BP is to much for a cornsnake. Good luck!

[stangs13]

corns are not fussy about their temps or their humidity which is why so many people recommend them as a first snake.

so a corn wouldn't care at all about being "within a range" of temps.

Yeah, but I wouldn't get to hot with them. I wouldn't go above 90 Degrees with corns. That could lead to some problems.

[recycling goddess]

the requirements for a corn snake are: 75-80F for the cool side, and 80-85F for the warm side. try to avoid temperatures below 70F and above 90F... so, that said... she could put a little newspaper on the bottom of her enclosure and then her aspen and VOILA a lower temp in her cornsnake enclosure.

certainly less expensive than setting up a whole new flexwatt and t-stat

[stangs13]

the requirements for a corn snake are: 75-80F for the cool side, and 80-85F for the warm side. try to avoid temperatures below 70F and above 90F... so, that said... she could put a little newspaper on the bottom of her enclosure and then her aspen and VOILA a lower temp in her cornsnake enclosure.

certainly less expensive than setting up a whole new flexwatt and t-stat

But if they ar anything like my corns they LOVE to burrow! Good luck!