Advice on Tub Problems

[Animals As Leaders]

First off, stick that probe under the substrate and reset your thermostat accordingly. You want to measure the hottest point your snake can get too. If it is 93* on top of the substrate it will be much hotter under the substrate.

77* is a fine ambient temperature. There is really no way to raise it unless you use an RHP, another UTH, or some kind of lamp. You could also use a space heater but a space heater in Texas makes no sense

You can make more holes if your humidity doesn't go down. I try to keep them at about 60-70%

I wouldn't place the probe in the tank, bad idea.

If you do this you will most likely need to tape to get it to stay and then all your snake has to do is move it around and then you could have more problems. Getting tape off a snake is hard and often leaves tape goo on them(not to mention the stress involved for them), and if the snake moves it away from the hot spot your hosed because the the tstat will stay on rendering the whole tstat function useless. Go in this order: Tape the heat tape or UTH to the surface tank will be sitting on(desk, table, w.e) then tstat probe and thermometer probe next to it, and then the tank. You might wanna put the thermometer in the tank over the hot spot first and make sure its actually heating up to what you want, then put the snake it.

Snapped a pic just so you could SEE what I mean

Both Probes taped down right next to each other


Tub sitting on top of heat source with probes in place



**Just remember that putting the probe from the thermometer in the tank initially to see what your snake is sitting on is what you wanna do, then remove it and put it wherever the probe from the tstat is located so you know exactly where the tstat is turning on and off.**