Greetings fello Snake people:

Boy that sounds wierd,, ANy way, I am having a heating problem at the moment. By the way a thermostat is not an option at the moment. My set up has recently changed so let me bring all the experts up to speed with my rig.

I just moved little Felix into his own room to better suit his needs. I figure it is more quite in there than by the boob tube in theliving room. Any way, My warm end is not that bad off, I have a heating pad (human kind) under the warm end of the tank. THis is assisted by a 60W heat lamp during the day, and a 50W IR lamp at night. My warm side stays around 92-95 deg. during the day and dips around to 88 or so at night. Now for the problem. My cool side stays around 77-79 deg at night and only reaches 80-82 durring the day.

As far as tank set up I have a 55 gal glass tank with screen top. It is 12.5" wide and 48" long. I have a hide over my heat pad (that is under the botom of the tank) and under the lights. I have a ceramic branch thing that reaches almost 3/4 of the way to the top. In Case he needs to get closer to the IR light at night. I have a hide in the middle of the tank and another on the far cool end. I also have a pond for him that is about 1/2 covered so he can actually hide in the water if he needs.

Since I moved him into his 0wn room his humidity has droped to around 52%. I mist the tank about 8 times a day and it brings it up to mid 60's but drops back down. at night the humidity satys around 56%. I am using aspin for substrate (sp). The room has a celing fan, I wonder if that is hurting my humidity levil? I have a digital Therm/Humidity thingy at the cool end and a digital thermomiter at the warm end. The one at the warm end is one of them with the probe. I put the probe right at the botom on top of the aspin, I figure that is where the snake is so why not take the temp there.

Any way, Felix seems to stay in the middle hide more often and comes out for short stents on the heating pad or in the fern at the cool end. He has yet to lay in the water, however, he does drink every so often.

Should I be concerned. Or is everything all right. I am guessing that the middle hide's temps must be right where he likes them because that is where he hangs out. I tend to leave the IR light on all the time and the Regular light is on a timer set to run 8 hours a day. I did notice the temp clime to 95.6 Deg today and paniced a bit and shut the big light off for a bit, But I guess with the cool side staying as cool as it does, he can always go and chill down there if the temp gets a bit too high.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I am also fighting with the humidity it think, (depends on if 52 % or so is really that bad). Should I worry about that too much or is everything alright considering he has a water dish he can soak in if he needs to? Like I said, a thermostat is not an option at the moment, I am lookig for other means right now.

Thanks again.
Ray