Quote Originally Posted by Phillydubs View Post
I totally understand your concern and you are doing the right thing by testing it and waiting. I still feel you need to lower it and see what the other side goes to... just because your house sits at that temp doesn’t mean in an encased enclosure that’s bumping radiant heat your far right side will all of a sudden become room temp. At least in my opinion. There is really only one way to know and that’s to try it. I’d go little by little. Lower the temp measure and keep a note pad. Ok therms at 100 hot wife 102 cool side 78 and go down the line. This really seems like a trial an error.

The only other option to me is to add a UTH on the cool side so that you get some heat going there or on the side of the cage maybe. Or I guess you could add another smaller RHP.

There is no way to get the room warmer ?? You could also do a space heater in that room?

On another note. May I ask what therm you are using and what you think about it because I’m shopping for them now and I can’t decide so any input would be nice !


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The house temps are set this low purposefully and won't be raised, so that's not an option. Neither is purchasing another heat panel at this time, though I do have an array of uth at my disposal if I have to use them. I just spent upwards of $800 purchasing the enclosures and rhps I have. My snake spending is on hold for a while. I'll have to figure out a way to make it work for winter weather.

Soon our indoor temps will jump to 78ish so it won't be an issue any longer.

I'm using a vivarium electronics hobbystat at the moment and I have a few of the little hydrofarm buddies that I use as well. The VE is okay. I intend on switching to herpstat shortly, aesthetics are my reasoning as the VE works just fine. I started out with hydrofarm on everything and I've yet to have a problem with them keeping steady. The actual temperature reading isn't exact on each of them, but once I find a setting that creates the appropriate amount of heat I've had no issue with their ability to hold steady. I only have three snakes at the moment so I don't need anything large or impressive as long as the job is done.

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