UTH Too much?

[Morjean]

Somehow the last part of my message got eaten, my sentence ended with: "they're like <20 bucks and Well worth their money"

Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk

[TCampanaro]

PLEASE turn down your thermostat right now! the SURFACE temperature should be 90F on one side and 80F on the other! You can neglect ambient temp for now.

If your temperature beneath the substrate is 120F as you said, you have to turn down the heat or else you run risk of burning your snake! Also, your heat source HAS to be plugged into a thermostat no matter what, this is very important

The acurite is much recommended by people here, I personally do not have any experiences with it. Though I do, additionally, recommend a heat gun to easily and accurately check surface temperature, they're like

Dont worry! I do not have the UTH plugged in! I knew that was too hot. I dont have anything to regulate the temperature though. Ive never had to do that... what would you recommend to get to do so?

[TCampanaro]

I am guessing you DONT HAVE A THERMOSTAT??

I only have the digital zoo med with probe. Waiting for next pay check to get thermostats. Other bp has a digital thermometer

[chrid16371]

Dont worry! I do not have the UTH plugged in! I knew that was too hot. I dont have anything to regulate the temperature though. Ive never had to do that... what would you recommend to get to do so?

If you can afford it get a high end thermostat like a spyder robotics Herpstat, depending on how many snakes you have they have different models that can control 1, 2, 4, 6 setups and range $100-$440 and I personally wouldn't get any model lower than the Herpstat 1 bc of the safety features. Then there is the reptile basics ve-200 for $115 but you would need 1 for each setup or the ve-300x2 for $200 that control 2 different setups. Cheaper ones from amazon like the inkbird itc-308 run around $30-$40 which you will need to buy 1 for each setup as well. Any reptile heating device needs to be regulated no matter what species your keeping. Also like I said those zoo med probe thermometers are usually really inaccurate, at least all the ones I've used, so I recommend either getting an acurite 00891 for each setup which are $12 each or a reliable temp gun.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

[TCampanaro]

If you can afford it get a high end thermostat like a spyder robotics Herpstat, depending on how many snakes you have they have different models that can control 1, 2, 4, 6 setups and range $100-$440 and I personally wouldn't get any model lower than the Herpstat 1 bc of the safety features. Then there is the reptile basics ve-200 for $115 but you would need 1 for each setup or the ve-300x2 for $200 that control 2 different setups. Cheaper ones from amazon like the inkbird itc-308 run around $30-$40 which you will need to buy 1 for each setup as well. Any reptile heating device needs to be regulated no matter what species your keeping. Also like I said those zoo med probe thermometers are usually really inaccurate, at least all the ones I've used, so I recommend either getting an acurite 00891 for each setup which are $12 each or a reliable temp gun.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

Thank you very much. This was very helpful.