What I would do is get a small UTH and put it under the water dish in your situation.
I also kept snakes in the 80/90 when most people only used heat lamps or Heat rocks/pads. I used heat Rocks & pads without overhead heat. A large UTH on the Hotside dialed in at 90 and another on the Cool side at 80 works great. I had snakes living 20 years like that. Yes we all talk about ambient, however we didnt think about that 30 years ago and Pythons lived healthy with heated floors as long as they weren’t Tree Snakes.
You can raise the humidity a little if you place the water bowl either partially on the heat mat or directly under the CHE.
As far as heat mats, you can make it reusable. Get aluminum tape and cover the sticky side of the mat with it. Sticky side to sticky side. Then use more foil tape round the edges to secure it to the bottom of the tank.
Great info. Thanks for the insight. I actually did move one of my water bowls over the UTH, removed about half the coconut substrate and my humidity jumped from 47 to 70%!
Originally Posted by Ratz700
Find yourself some coconut fiber bedding. Soak it well in water before using. It holds moisture very well. Problem solved.
Will keep this one in mind for later. Thanks for the insight.
Originally Posted by CALM Pythons
What I would do is get a small UTH and put it under the water dish in your situation.
I also kept snakes in the 80/90 when most people only used heat lamps or Heat rocks/pads. I used heat Rocks & pads without overhead heat. A large UTH on the Hotside dialed in at 90 and another on the Cool side at 80 works great. I had snakes living 20 years like that. Yes we all talk about ambient, however we didnt think about that 30 years ago and Pythons lived healthy with heated floors as long as they weren’t Tree Snakes.
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Great insight. Moving my water dish and removing much of the substrate actually fixed my problem. Looks like I get to keep my "glass box" after all. Thanks so much.
We were having significant humidity issues. A rock hide with a little sphagnum moss has made a significant difference! Since the snakes aren't in shed, we only mist the moss every couple of days so that we don't run into any issues with scale rot.
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