Quote Originally Posted by Chaosangel

Sounds like we'll need to air condition in the summer! Today, with the vents open, it was just above 90 on the warm side, but 78 on the cool side. I'm on my way to the store to get some sticky tape thermometers ... I want to attach them to the bottom of the cage to see how close the temp on the wall is to the temp lower down. (As heat rises!)
Scoot over to WalMart (or Home Depot or Lowes) and pick up a digital indoor/outdoor thermometer. They cost around $12 or less...and will accurately measure temps on both the warm side and cool side of your enclosure at the same time...as well as the humidity. Far far better than the little stick-on analogue dials.


She's in our bedroom, but it's been fairly chilly because we haven't had the funds to replace the cheap windows. :p My husband is on his way to the store to buy some of that plastic to cover the windows with to see if we can raise the temp without trying to heat the entire house. If that doesn't work, we may be trying to make space in our over-crowded computer room!
Plastic over the windows may help a lot. If you still need more help, you can keep the cage partially covered by the blanket mentioned earlier...so that the blanket covers the side facing the windows at all times.

No, not an issue ... but the large bowl is the only thing that keeps the humidity up anyway. We live in Utah ... pretty low humidity.
That's fine to keep the larger bowl then. I'm in AZ, so I do know "dry"... The best thing I ever did for my snake was ditch the glass box and put her in a plastic sterelite tub. It's not pretty...but it does keep her environment spot-on. I actually have to make a conscious effort to keep the humidity from getting too high. But I understand the desire to have an attractive viv....so that's fine if you can make it work.

I found out that the vet who used to be at our local zoo is working at a clinic ... I have an appointment for tomorrow morning.
Awesome!

On temperature ... is holding her a good option, too? Or are 98.6 degree hands too warm?
Well...the inside of your body is 98.6...the surface of your skin is much cooler. But even if you were feverish, it would be fine to hold her. Not quite the same thing as having a small enclosure that gets too hot.

Thanks so much for the reply!!

Peggy
My pleasure!