Battle of the Tstats! R vs J

[jfaria1891]

I understand being broke. But I have to rant a second, again, not trying to be rude or anything here.
People don'to hesitate throwing down 100-200 for a big normal girl, or morphs. They buy multiple snakes for upwards of that knowing they got a good deal. But when it comes time to buy a thermostat, for your rack, you are putting the lives of all of your snakes (say 4 snakes at 100 each, $400..and that is way low for most starting collections) that's where they want to trim costs? It makes no sense to me. Then, even more silly is trimming cost on an incubator tstat, which in theory is the lives of say 2-3 clutches. Possibly over a thousand dollars in babies (not even touching on the fact they are lives.. just business perspective here) so they save <$80 on going cheap tstat. And then gamble a temp spike or failure...it just doesn't make sense to me. Don't pair until you have saved up for a good tstat. How long do you think it would take you to save up $100? If you already have 40. That's only $60 of saving. Put in $5 a week and you'll have the money in 3 months. 3 months...vs getting it now and risking all those babies.
again, I'm sorry..I wasnt trying to aattack you personally. I've just seen so many people recently going with a cheap tstat to save money ..I just can't imagine risking the lives of my babies over a $60 difference.

your missinformed but you make a good point none the less. in my case i have only paid $245 for my 4 snakes and about 180 building the rack for them... and this season i only have one female thats ready and my only male is a pastel so at most im going to have 1 clutch and its going to be female to pastel with the best odds probably a $400 clutch at most with which money i plan to buy a VE-200 which i will use to run my rack and then when i need my incubator the VE-200 will run the incubator and let the ranco run the rack for the 60 some odd days with a zoomed tstat as a failsafe the zoomed i have now so ill already have that and it will make a perfect failsafe for the ranco. honestly i am insulted to think that you think i would honestly put my snakes at risk due to shear ignorance, i have done my fair share of research and after all this is a HOBBY rent and bills comes first or me and the snakes will be on the streets with nowhere to plug in my fancy VE-200 or my herpstat 8. im trying to safely make ends meet here and i feel like im succeeding i was only asking for advice on which seemingly equal one was better.

and there is my rant see i can do it too

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If you can't afford a good thermostat, then how are you going to afford to take care of the babies? What about proper housing for the babies? What about a thermostat for their rack or cages? I'd hold off on breeding until you could afford to get the right equipment and afford to care for the offspring. It is the responsible thing to do. Those two thermostats may do the job, but the thermostat on the incubator is the most critical piece of equipment in the breeding process. I have two of them, one to back up the primary. It isn't the area to scrimp when breeding. Lots of things go wrong if you get temp spikes or failures.

i have the rack and i have the bins and i have a cheap supplier for hoppers, i got this