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Jeff Clark
at Thu Nov 20 00:00:07 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
Sara,
...You need to know the temperature right down where the snake lives, which is on the bottom of the cage most of the time. Try placing the thermometer there for awhile. Some stick on thermometers are very inaccurate. One placed on a glass pane is going to be indicating the temperature of the pane which is generally an average of the temperatures on both sides of the pane. Many stick on thermometers are not very accurate. With a non contact infrared thermometer you can read temperatures at different locations in the cage and even shoot the snake with it to see what his temperature is. That undertank heater should be creating a warm spot on the floor of the cage and the snake will move on and off of it as it wants. If that warm area on the floor is in the 80s and the rest of the cage is in the high 60s that is okay but, ideally you should have most of the cage in the 70s. The insulation that Dave recommended can make that work. BTW, I have kept little BRBS over a winter with their cages in the 60s most of the time and they did fine. I wish I was in Florida. It is REALLY cold here in Savannah.
Jeff
>>So, we finally got a cold front here in florida (which is like 50s and 60s, but still). I can't get my BRB, Suga Shank's, home to warm up. I have an all glass 10 gallon with an all glass lid to keep humidity and heat in. I have a small bottom heater pad that takes up one side. I've been progressively turning up the thermostat everyday. It's at the highest it will go and the tank temperature reads like 68-70 during the day. I don't really know what to do.
>>My friend mentioned getting a UVB ray bulb? I don't know. I don't want to fry him either.
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>>Poor Suga. Help.
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>>SARA B.
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>>-1.0 BRB (Suga Shank)
>>-1.0 pink dog (Hermes)
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Accuracy - Jeff Clark, Thu Nov 20 00:00:07 2008