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Ordered the temp gun today and got a 100W CHE.
I replaced the daytime lamp with the CHE and moved the daytime lamp to the place where the night lamp used to be.
Right now the plan is to no longer use the night lamp at all and to only use the day lamp when needed to see inside the enclosure (the room it is kept in isn't very bright).
Meanwhile, I have the CHE now plugged into a timer - cycling off at 11pm and cycling back on at 4am.
I did all of the above tonight, misted the tank, then waited an hour or two, checked temps...temps have FALLEN 6 degrees on both sides, humidity levels are already rising (yay!)
I'm not too surprised as the lid was off with no ambient heat source for half an hour or so while I worked on getting everything in place.
I'll check the temps again in another hour or two before I hit the sack to make sure things are looking proper.
Really trying hard for that 90-50/80-50 mark, but good lord is it ever finicky, even with the proper gear!
The BP actually came over to the hot side for the first time since I got her and laid in the substrate outside of her hide with the upper 1/2 of her body over the UTH!! I'll take a victory where I can get it!
She laid there forever...several hours at least, not moving a muscle. After I got back from running some errands later this evening, however, she was right back up in the vines again, which is where she is as I write this.
My thoughts are that I need to give her some time to adjust and not rush her, let her take it at her own pace. She was obviously comfortable on the UTH today, at least for a few hours, and she has checked out the hides on several occasions, so I think I'm on the right track here.
I was too busy to snap pics tonight, but I'll grab a few in the morning and get them posted.
I have a client that is absolutely scared to death of snakes coming in the morning and it should be lots of fun seeing her face when she sees the tank!
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