Where to place the probe

[Lomu]

First, I'd like to encourage you by saying that it looks like you have all the pieces for a first class set up. You'll probably just need to tweak it a bit.

To that end, a couple questions:

• What is the wattage of your DHP?
• What thermostat are you using now and which one are you planning to switch to?

Thank you so much Homebody for the encouragement. If anyone reads this and is new to ball pythons...we have a corn snake and he likes to lie a little uncoiled in his hides so we got him hides that were for his size. Yesterday, the gentleman at the aquatics and reptiles told us to get smaller hides. I honestly stood there and was like...this is going to be such a waste of money...there is no way Lomu will fit in there. We bought 2 different hides...grey one that is like a caramel exo terra one and then the cheaper black box plastic type hides. Both are tiny but he is very happily sleeping in the grey hide this morning. I stand corrected on that one.

The wattage on the arcadia dhp is 80W. I have attached a picture of what the stat looks like versus the stat we have for our corn snake.

Picture number 1 is our BP stat
Picture number 2 is our BP stat

We used the gun last night and the corn snakes reading matched the stat. The temp from the stat and the thermometer on the corn snakes viv is the same. The stat we using for the BP is off with the thermometer. It's also not the same as the gun.

When we got the viv it came with another stat...it is the stat that you use the 'key' to turn the dial...really off as well.

The above has contributed to all the hassle with having to disrupt Lomu. We knew that the viv would come set up for us upon collection but in hindsight as everyone who knows says...set up the viv a week before and make all your adjustments before you get a BP. With Shaka we had him in a baby viv then spent time setting his big viv up so by the time he was put in all was good to go.

We want to get a stat like the one we use with our corn...the classic.

We have been thinking about moving the lamp to the middle of the ceiling away from the corner and then to the right slightly so that we are able to keep the cool side warm enough.

Also...the half logs...we are thinking of keeping them in but moving the black hide into its place and the temp inside the log isn't very high compared to the outside of the hide.



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