Temps sky high! Please help me control this!

[jclaiborne]

Would it help to switch her bulb with Lady's? She doesn't get enough heat with hers anyway so I think it's too low of a wattage

Honestly it is hard to say what to do without seeing your setups and what type of lamps you are using, are the bulbs the round with no reflector, are you using the "basking" bulbs that have the reflector built in, as well as the different wattages. Using "reptile specific" bulbs for heat is kind of a joke, as the markup is incredibly high and the quality of the bulb is lacking, the range on what the actual wattage output on say a 75W bulb fluctuates quite a bit. A quick fix is a dimmer but you have to tweak with it to get the temps right, and if the ambient fluctuates in the room you will have to adjust it again.

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[SCWood]

Update: No lamps or mats are in use currently. The Florida room is 90° ambient! I opened all windows and doors to encourage a breeze. Jen won't let me bring them in so I turned on a high power fan too. Any other suggestions?

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[SCWood]

Setups
Cleo
Cage: 36" x 18" x 18" (Exo-Terra Large Wide)
Bulb: up to 100w (installed 07-2014, 50w Red Bulb) Dome is Zoo Med double. Day bulb unknown.
Heat: Small heat pad (All Living Things; NOT IN USE)
Substrate: Coco Husk (soon to be carpet)
Hide: Large Half-Log
Hot: 87° Cool: 77°



Eden
Cage: 24" x 18" x 12" (Exo-Terra Medium Low)
Bulb: up to 75w (installed 04-23-2015, All Living Things Incandescent 75w)
Heat: Small heat pad(ZooMed) NOT IN USE
Substrate: Repti-Bark
Hide: Exo-Terra Large
Hot: 98° Cool: 84°



Boots
Cage: 48" x 12.5" x 20" (55 gallon)
Bulb: up to 250w (installed 04-18-2015, ZooMed Black Light 100w)
Heat: No heat pad
Substrate: Repti-Bark
Hide: Petco Cave, 10x9x6
Hot: 86° Cool: 83°



Lady (Iguana)
Cage: 22" x 36" x 16"
Bulb: Unknown wattage red bulb
Substrate: Repti-Bark
Hide: Large Half-Log
Hot: 85° Cool: 82°



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[jclaiborne]

Best bet for now would be to get dimmers (especially if you are saving for a tstat)...the wattage on your bulbs seems pretty high IMO.

[bcr229]

Update: No lamps or mats are in use currently. The Florida room is 90° ambient! I opened all windows and doors to encourage a breeze. Jen won't let me bring them in so I turned on a high power fan too. Any other suggestions?

If you're seeing ambient temps that high now in that room they'll be dangerously high in a few weeks as the weather warms up more. You either need to cool the room or block sunlight from coming in to limit heat generated by solar gain. You can apply window treatment film to the windows and skylights to block most of the sunlight, put up shades, etc.

Another method to provide relief in a small area is to use a small personal-size fan to blow air across a frozen 1-2 liter bottle of water. Aim the fan at the front of the rack or so the breeze goes across the tops of your tanks.

[bcr229]

Also, the temperature in your snake room room swings way too much for dimmers to be effective. You need thermostats, dimmers only work where the room ambient temps are stable.

[SCWood]

Also, the temperature in your snake room room swings way too much for dimmers to be effective. You need thermostats, dimmers only work where the room ambient temps are stable.

Gah okay ^^

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[SCWood]

Okay so this is what my temps look like as of yesterday

Cleo: Warm-86 Hot Spot-91 Cool-82 Humid-55
Lady: Warm-87 Hot-90 Cool-85
Eden: Warm-85 Hot-90 Cool-86 Humid-60-80
Boots: Warm-86 Hot-87 Cool-83 Humid-45

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[DVirginiana]

Those window treatment films work wonders. I'm in NC, so not dealing with anything as extreme as you are, but it still gets dangerously hot during the summer and dangerously cold in the winter. They keep my reptile room at whatever temp my apartment is and I use a small oil-filled space heater to keep ambient temps around 80.

[anicatgirl]

That seems dangerous, given that we have not hit high temps for the season yet. I second window treatments, or heck, foil those windows. But I still stick with the idea that living somewhere else entirely is the best idea in the ridiculous situation.