Hi,

Quote Originally Posted by Twiz View Post
I know they aren't normal this is why I got worried in the first place, I am just glad to see that she isn't regurging. I haven't lowered my guard with the situation yet just a bit relieved to see it was a BM instead of regurge. I did pick up a nice digital scale to keep track of her weight. How often should I weigh her? Is once a week good?

I use a UTH on the warm side and a red light to bring up ambient air temp, both of these are on the plug in style dimmer switches. The temp in her warm hide is currently 92.7 and ambient temp in middle of the tank is currently 84.5. I use an Acu-rite indoor outdoor thermometer with the probe buried right over the UTH, and I mounted the unit on the back wall of the tank in the middle approx 1/2" above substrate using a few dabs of silicone on the back around the edges so I can cut it out for cleaning. The wire is buried under multiple inches of coco fiber so there is no chance of her 'digging' it up and the probe is secured with a built up dab of silicone as well with about 1"-1 1/2" packed coco fiber under that hide. The unit also has a hygrometer which is currently reading 58%
We might be getting somewhere ( or not ) but can you take a temp reading on top of that packed down substrate inside the warm end hide?

Low temps would cause the snake to have problems digesting and that is a lot of substrate between the heater and the snake.

I know they can burrow down but packed down coco-fibre might be a little trickier.


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