Tragic day for my snakes.

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Being a keeper of many snakes is hard. Most people dont understand it nor do they really care, which I can deal with just fine. But last night I came home from a long busy day, and found something terrible. Most people wont really understand it, but, I was devastated to find my thermostat failed to shut down once reaching the temp to which it was set. As a result it ran the heat tape all day non stop. I found 1 one my snakes, the caramel albino male dead. He was my daughters snake and truly a wonderful little. I also found my female pastel taking her last breath. They died from too much heat for too long. All of my other snakes seem fine, but I am completely devastated. These snakes are my pets, loved and cared for as people do dogs. I am really at a loss for words so many people just dont get or understand it, and some think im crazy for being so upset. My Daughter handled it fairly well, better than I have. Its just terrible. both in the fact I lost two loved pets, and that they were lost in such a horrific way.

I havent been on here in a good long while, but I wasnt sure where else to go to talk about such things.

In the wake of this tragedy, I will not let my love and care for my pets be broken. I plan on using this event as a catalyst for change, growth and new beginnings. I am going to see if I can find or build a thermostat with a raspberry pi or similar device. I want it to monitor and control temps on a per tub basis, have fail safe programming logic, and email/text alerts when something goes wrong. Too many times have i seen or heard of times that people like us loose animals, or worse a house burns down.

So I ask of anyone reading this that if they know of any thing similar that is out there, please let me know. If not let me know if this is something you may be interested in, and suggest features, or functions you would like. I cant promise a thing, but I know I as a keeper cant let this sort of thing happen to my pets again.