Temperature Question For A RUB & First Time BP Owner

[Seviper]

No that will be ok. As long as your cool side is 78-82 everything else sounds ok. Also you could try putting the probe flat on the paper towel to see what I reads. Also your snake is laying on the paper towel therefore putting pressure on the tub which means it will be hotter with his weight on it. I'm not sure if I'm explaining it good enough. Its like if you lay your hand on a hot pan on the stove and it feels hot but if you press on the hot pan it will feel and be hotter, same thing with your snake laying on its hot spot. Please don't try to test my theory of hand on pan on stove lol jut take my word for it! A way to test this though is take your thermometer probe and lay it directly flat on paper towel and then find something heavyish that is the size of the probe or bigger and set it on the probe and you should see the temp go up.

No, that makes perfect sense. I'll go ahead and place my palm on the hot stove right now!... Nah just kidding. I left the temperature probe in precisely the same spot and it's gone up to 88.2F and the humidity is sitting at 60%, with the probe beneath the paper towels, I hit max of 93.4F, so with the snake's weight I'd imagine it would be a little over 94F if he went beneath the paper towel. Thanks so much dude. It means a lot. : ) I'd have to ask to borrow my uncle's soldering iron again before I could test the temp on the cool end, but with the heat mat being beneath around one third of the RUB, at the right temperature, I would assume the cool end would actually be around the 78-82F range.

[chrid16371]

No, that makes perfect sense. I'll go ahead and place my palm on the hot stove right now!... Nah just kidding. I left the temperature probe in precisely the same spot and it's gone up to 88.2F and the humidity is sitting at 60%, with the probe beneath the paper towels, I hit max of 93.4F, so with the snake's weight I'd imagine it would be a little over 94F if he went beneath the paper towel. Thanks so much dude. It means a lot. : ) I'd have to ask to borrow my uncle's soldering iron again before I could test the temp on the cool end, but with the heat mat being beneath around one third of the RUB, at the right temperature, I would assume the cool end would actually be around the 78-82F range.

Good everywhere is in check then! I would say with a temp of 88 that with your snakes weight its probably around 90-91 right where he's laying which is perfect as well. The heat mat won't affect your air temp so the cool side is probably around the temp of the room the tub is in. If it drops a little below 78 at night it will be ok as long as you have the hot spot right. If you get into the low 70s I would start to worry.

[Seviper]

Good everywhere is in check then! I would say with a temp of 88 that with your snakes weight its probably around 90-91 right where he's laying which is perfect as well. The heat mat won't affect your air temp so the cool side is probably around the temp of the room the tub is in. If it drops a little below 78 at night it will be ok as long as you have the hot spot right. If you get into the low 70s I would start to worry.

I'm going to keep checking that thermometer obsessively. I won't be getting my snake until he has struck fed 5 times in a row, and he hasn't had his first meal yet. I think I'll also just leave the thermostat on despite the fact that it is a few weeks before I'll get the snake. I'd imagine when I mist the RUB for example, when my little guy is shedding, and the thermometer reads a lower figure, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the floor temperature hasn't actually decreased on either end? Also, once I have a stable temperature I guess I won't need the probe in there?

[chrid16371]

Since you don't have a heating device on the cool side you will want to take the air temp of the cool side. You can do this by hanging a thermometer with probe a little off the ground, you can also test the ground temp if you want but air will be good enough since you don't have a heat device. I would leave the thermometer probe in there forever lol or until you get a temp gun. That way your able to see if something goes wrong.

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[Seviper]

Since you don't have a heating device on the cool side you will want to take the air temp of the cool side. You can do this by hanging a thermometer with probe a little off the ground, you can also test the ground temp if you want but air will be good enough since you don't have a heat device. I would leave the thermometer probe in there forever lol or until you get a temp gun. That way your able to see if something goes wrong.

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Um... I don't really understand... but uhh my temp gun should be arriving tomorrow from amazon, I could use the temp gun on the cool side and then place the thermometer's probe behind the hide so the tip is touching the floor, or something, so my snake won't start fiddling with it. I think that's what you meant?

[chrid16371]

If you have the temp gun then you don't have to have the thermometer probe in there if you don't want. I keep my thermometer probes in mine all the time so I can see changes in temps without having to use my temp guns. I still use my temp guns once or twice a day to compare to my thermometers. If you need the probed thermometer for humidity you might as well leave it in there.

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[Seviper]

Temps seem fine. Haven't gotten my gun set up because I don't have a 9V battery, argh. I replaced the water bowl with fresh water as a sort of practice for my new daily routine, left the box for a while and the humidity is sitting at 65%. Hopefully that's alright and not too high. I did spill a tiny bit on the paper which might have kicked up the humidity a bit.

[chrid16371]

Temps seem fine. Haven't gotten my gun set up because I don't have a 9V battery, argh. I replaced the water bowl with fresh water as a sort of practice for my new daily routine, left the box for a while and the humidity is sitting at 65%. Hopefully that's alright and not too high. I did spill a tiny bit on the paper which might have kicked up the humidity a bit.

It didn't come with a battery? All of mine came with batteries. 65% is not to high, not even close to being to high.

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[Seviper]

It didn't come with a battery? All of mine came with batteries. 65% is not to high, not even close to being to high.

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Nope it didn't. Anyway, the temperatures and the humidity around the RUB are completely fine... but one thing really, really frightened me. I wanted to see what the temperature is inside the hide, compared to just outside it at the entrance of the hide on the hot side... I put the probe in and left it in there for a while, I come back and see 100.8F!!! What the heck!! Why is it so much hotter?! Is that anything I should be freaking out about??

I took the probe out of the hide and left it just at the entrance to the hide and it was showing 90-91F which is normal, but it is WAY WAY WAY hotter inside that hide and I am scared to death that my snake will cook himself alive, good thing I noticed several weeks before I get him!

[chrid16371]

Nope it didn't. Anyway, the temperatures and the humidity around the RUB are completely fine... but one thing really, really frightened me. I wanted to see what the temperature is inside the hide, compared to just outside it at the entrance of the hide on the hot side... I put the probe in and left it in there for a while, I come back and see 100.8F!!! What the heck!! Why is it so much hotter?! Is that anything I should be freaking out about??

I took the probe out of the hide and left it just at the entrance to the hide and it was showing 90-91F which is normal, but it is WAY WAY WAY hotter inside that hide and I am scared to death that my snake will cook himself alive, good thing I noticed several weeks before I get him!

Do you have a light or anything over it? Only thing I could think of is that its building up heat in there but it shouldn't. Try testing under the paper towel in the same spot and see if you get the same temp or higher.

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