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Posted by: DMong at Sun Feb 17 01:05:18 2013   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

You're welcome,.....but NOT 80 degrees! You need it in the very high 80's on the floor surface ONLY if it is going to be in the 70's on the far end. 80 degrees isn't warm enough on the far end. You only need a small portion of it to be warm anyway, not an entire half of the tank. All it takes is enough of the floor surface so the snake can go there and coil up to digest properly, then it will leave when its done to lower its metabolism more to conserve energy/calories.

Also, just use some heat proof spacers of some sort...ANYTHING like small stacks of thick metal washers, ceramic discs, thin blocks of whatever around the house to barely raise the cage floor off the mat just a small bit. You can adjust it very accurately that way in small increments depending on the height adjustments you make...


cheers, ~Doug
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