So, I will start off by letting you guys know that I have a ball python and he is housed in an animal plastics t8. I have flexwatt running as well as an RHP, both on the same sides as it gets pretty cold here. I am in a basement and the temperature is usually around 66-68 degrees. As it's coming into the colder months here in New England I'm worried about my buddy. The issue I'm having is that the temperatures on the hot and cooler side are very far apart. On the hot side the ambient is 80 when I use my temp gun the floor is reading 90-91 which is great. But when getting over to the cool side the ambient is around 74 and the floor just about the same at 74. I'm worried that this is too much of a jump in temperatures. Severus (my bp) rarely goes to the cool side unless its late at night and he's exploring climbing his tree and such. I just recently ordered a Herpstat 2 to help better regulate my heating elements as I currently am running a cheaper petstore thermostat, that probe is under the tank wedged between the PVC and the Flexwatt. I use acurrite thermometers on either side of the tank to gauge the ambient and humidity and as I stated I use a temp gun to check the floor temps and just adjust the thermostat accordingly.
I have been reading all over the forums and people (in cold climates) have no issues with the RHP reaching somewhat over to the cool side. That being said, I do know that RHP acts like the sun and heats the floor and objects under it's rays, but it has risen the ambient temp a bit since I've had it which has been awesome.
Any help/suggestions/duh-moments are gladly appreciated
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