Septicemia Dehydration Baby Ball Help!

[WhompingWillow]

Thank you for your opinion. We asked!

Sad to find our temperature monitors are not good ones. Ok. Will update as apap.

Heating sources, we have a ceramic bulb & that is very warm (150). WE also have an under-mounted heater. Snake has never buried himself or dove into substrate.

We will try different prey. He is small so we stuck to small I was recently told, like you, that fuzzy often gets them going.

Do the digital "guns" you aim and point work? Recommendations? Plz & THX!1

Temp gun example: https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Lase...emp+gun&sr=8-3

And yes, you point and click to get an accurate measurement of the surface temperature. Ambient air temp should be roughly 80 degrees, maybe a bit warmer on the hot side, but the surface hot side temp should only be ~90. A 150 watt bulb is VERY warm. If your house is cold or the tank very tall that may be ok, but I'd strongly suggest either getting a thermostat or a dimmer for your bulb. A dimmer you can get at any major hardware store, or you can buy a Fluker dome with a built in dimmer at PetCo, but you'll likely have to downsize the wattage so it doesn't burn out the lamp. Any undertank heaters (UTH) MUST have a thermostat to control them. Just because you haven't seen him move the substrate doesn't mean he hasn't. You want the bottom surface of the tank to read 90 with the temp gun, with only a thin layer of substrate over it.

Thermostat, this is a popular entry level one: https://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-Ger...d-f486577edf4d

Digital thermometer: https://www.walmart.com/ip/AcuRite-0...BoC-uIQAvD_BwE

Sorry the links are so long. Hope this helps.