So came home today to findnhim still on the cold side with a report that he had ventured into the warm hide for just a bit presumably to warm up. Open to the warm hide is 90 degress and the back corner, 97 so its probably a bit too warm. It's also still a bit to big so we are going to lay some flat rocks in there to tighten thing up a bit. Ambitent temos range from 82-> 76. Humidity at 40 :-(
Plan of attack is as follows:
1) Det up a second digi thermometer and probe on the cool side (probe inside cool hide) and be able to monitor cool temps constantly as well.
2) Pull the ceramic off the rheostat and turn down the UTH a bit to cool the hide a bit. The hide is directly under the ceramic heater so it's tough to tell how much of the heat is being sucked up from above vs below. It's a clay hide.and probably holds a lot of heat. The probe is stuck on the back inside at ground level. Not sure where else to out it.
3) Add the flat rocks to tighten up the warm hide and hopefully absorb a bit if the heat (should prevent him from ever getting to the glass and burning too).
4) Increase the size of the water dish andneither soak the substrate or add some moss to try to get the humidity levels up.
Let me knownif this sounds about right or I'm missing something.
Thanks!
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