Burn

[Lady mkrj58]

Here ya go OP here is a expensive one If Money is the Problem, and I don't care if 20 people who know snakes says you don't need a Thermostat thats just plain Stupidity EDUCATION NEEDED HERE apparently for your Friends to. Im not ragging on you these are just the facts.. The Model thats by Zoomed can be found online at Amazon.com or most Pet Stores online its the least cost of all mentioned but is far better than nothing, my heart is broke over seeing that horrible Burn on that Poor Innocent Snake.

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[bcr229]

Does anyone know what else I can put on it?

Betadine diluted with enough clean water so it looks like weak iced tea. Silver sulfadiazine also works, normally it's prescription-only from your vet or a doctor but http://www.mountainside-medical.com/ will sell it without a scrip.

[Izzys Keeper]

Yes well I have a friend that says a thermostat is unneccessary and he's never had a problem. That's why I never got one. Since he's a person I know in real life and his bp is in great shape I listen to him. If I listened to everything online I'd probably still be struggling with aspen bedding.

The heat pad, as peidlover79 said (thank you), isn't supposed to get hot enough to burn anything as long as there is substrate, and every time i've touched it, it hasn't been too hot. This time there just happened to be not enough substrate on it. The hide was dug too deep

And lastly, my snake almost never hangs out on the hot side. I noticed she had been lately and attributed it to shedding but I didn't expect it would be hot enough to burn her. I will get a thermostat now obviously, because the temps in my room just vary way too much for the tank temps to be consistent. This wouldn't have been a problem in winter.

In real life, her skin is a bit pink and the scales a bit wrinkly, like a sunburn, like I said. Those brown specs are from the substrate. It looks worse in the pic than in real life. Her behaviour has pretty much gone back to normal pre-shed behaviour.

So if everyone is done patronising me, chastising me, and insulting my aptitude for my career, some constructive advice would be much appreciated, thank you.

I turned off the big uth, I will line the tank with paper towel.

1. Does anyone know what else I can put on it?
2. Has anyone tried bag balm for these guys?
3. How long does it usually take to heal?
4. Is there anything USEFUL I should know that hasn't been made painfully clear, like for instance RECCOMMENDATIONS FOR A T-STAT LIKE I ASKED FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE

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The problem isn't really only the heat pad getting too hot. It is also that it can sometimes rendomly malfunction and just get super hot. Years ago I've seen them get so hot that they could burn my skin. I've seen tubs melt from them. Luckily they weren't being used for my snakes. But I've seen in my estimation, 5 different ones malfunction and reach a dangerous temp to where I threw them out. I've also see ln bps clear the floor of substrate to sit on the bare enclosure bottom. A tstat or a dimmer can easily prevent all the what ifs

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[Coluber42]

I see this and its entertaining.
All thermostats are made to control a heating or cooling device, they do not know what their client is.

OK, they don't know what *everyone* does with their product. But they do know who their target market is, which is how they know which stores to try and sell to, how they design their packaging and logo, the reason why the thing is green and not hot pink, etc. And it's a lot easier to find a product if you know what it's being sold for, because then you know what store to look for it in. Plenty of people use Hydrofarms for reptiles, but they are still sold in the garden dept, and I bet a whole lot more people use them for seedlings.

[cristacake]

OK, they don't know what *everyone* does with their product. But they do know who their target market is, which is how they know which stores to try and sell to, how they design their packaging and logo, the reason why the thing is green and not hot pink, etc. And it's a lot easier to find a product if you know what it's being sold for, because then you know what store to look for it in. Plenty of people use Hydrofarms for reptiles, but they are still sold in the garden dept, and I bet a whole lot more people use them for seedlings.

Pardon me for butting in but I believe what Pit meant was that the thermostats themselves, the actual machines, do not know their client/what they're heating.