When I acquired my second female BP last week, a UTH came in the trade. I am looking to build a rack this summer and figured this would be a good time to try my hand at my first tub. I have my 3 1/2 ft female in a 90qt tub (perfect length but just twice as high as need be), but have run into heating problems.
The UTH was (at first) attached directly to the bottom of the tub, but the hot side was been running to hot according to my Accurite thermometer. Due to a re-opened cut on her neck (thanks to the guy that feed this slender snake large rats), my substrate is newspaper and is very thin. If she was cut free and infection was not a worry, I would have aspen bedding in there and the problem would not be as difficult to manage.
So to attempt to fix the problem, I changed the thickness of paper, amount of paper, and kind of paper, all to no avail.
Finally, I put the UTH on the ground and created a space about an inch and a half between the UTH and the tub using golf balls as a spacer.
That has made a bigger difference than any of the previous changes, but it is still a tad to warm. It is usually right at 93, but I just peeked in there and it was at 94.5.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
I have come to the realization that most UTH's are meant for glass tanks, not plastic tubs.