BP hasn't eaten in 2 weeks.

[ride_gnu]

YES!! Thermostats are a wonderful thing. They range from about $50 (Ranco, Johnson) to $500. Reptilebasics.com have some decent prices on thermostats. As for your current set-up, you NEED to get a lamp dimmer on that UTH at minimum or you could have a toasted snake on your hands. Lamp dimmers are only about $10, so get one in the mean time but if you can, in the long run you will want a thermostat.

OK, I got the UTH hooked up to my orignal thermostant which brough the temperature down. Now these termostats sound good, but clearly I dont have $500 dollars to spend on one of these. But I do have lots a deals with all my pet stores around here, do pet stores carry these? Or can get them in for me? Or is this specialty internet order thing?

[missi182]

OK, I got the UTH hooked up to my orignal thermostant which brough the temperature down. Now these termostats sound good, but clearly I dont have $500 dollars to spend on one of these. But I do have lots a deals with all my pet stores around here, do pet stores carry these? Or can get them in for me? Or is this specialty internet order thing?

Pretty much an online order thing only. I have yet to see a pet store that carries thermostats. I highly suggest the ranco as I mentioned before, on ebay you can get one shipped for about 60 but you have to wire it, but thats not hard.

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trk...All-Categories

You can also get the same ranco from reptilebasics ready to go.

http://www.reptilebasics.com/Thermostats-p-1-c-250.html