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This is a indoor/outdoor digital temp gauge i bought at Wal-mart for 15 bucks, it has a sensor with a 10' cord for outdoor temps which I use under the basking spot of my water monitor and the digital readout i put on the further side of the cage giving me the ambient temp which as you can read is 82 degrees and the basking spot at 123 degrees you can also switch it to celsius for whoever likes to read temps that way. It also gives the humidity level as well which we all know is important depending on the monitor, and it'll give you the history of the highest and lowest temps in either a 12 hour period or a 24 hour period. Just something i thought i would share, take it easy!

Its the same type I use but mine has two probes. It is not that accurate for telling basking surface temps. though. I use a temp gun for that. I use the probes in another cage one for temp. one for humidity. Most of mine no longer work (dead batteries).

I use one but it is a few degrees off. I use it for ambient temp. in one enclosure and room temp.
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Ed

I have a few of them. They work good but like someone already said... they dont replace a temp gun.
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0.1.0 BCI, 3 yr old
0.0.1 Ridge Tail Monitor
0.0.1 ArgusXflavi Cross monitor
0.0.1 Leoperd Gecko, Juvi (My girlfriends)

Yes, I use two. They're a nice compliment to a temp gun. Nice water though. I want one, but with argus and a sav, my eife is putting her foot down
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hbailey

0.1 argus monitor

lol Yeah i guess most people have to run a big reptile by their significant other, maybe that's why i have trouble with relationships lol. I'm currently designing my spare room into an entire asian jungle for my water, within the next month i should be breaking ground (or tearing down a wall) in this case, it'll have a running waterfall that flows into a pond that has a drain leading into the main drain pipe of the house for easy cleanout and a water purifier and filter to keep the water crisp and clean, it's own vented ac/heat unit to keep the temp exact, as for rocks and trees I have a friend that works at Mckohns who actually builds fake rock walls and sculting like that for mandalay bay and places in vegas who is going to help me with the interior, all in all it'll be a hell of a project but i'm really excited to see the end results. If anyone has any ideas of something i should do or shouldn't do lemme know, feedback is always a good thing!

Long live Monitors!!!

That sounds like it will be very nice! For lighting maybe you can even use gobos to enhance the more natural effects vissually...ask your buddy he should know what those are.
Good luck with the project!
shane

I housed a water monitor for a friend for about 6 months. One of the biggest problems I had was keeping the water clean. If I ever own one, I'll probably do a simpler version of what your doing so I'm not constantly lugging around vast amounts of water. Hopefully, your enclosure turns out as cool as it sounds, and post some pics .
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hbailey

0.1 argus monitor

and the sun fried it. Cheers

Its radio controlled, no wires. I switch them from 2, to 3 sensors in cages when temps are being adjusted. Most times they are in 2 cages. Mine gives temps and humidity on both base unit and on the sensors.

I use them, but as FR said they can be fried I had mine reading 50-60C in a corn snake cage, when the heat was really 25-30C. This was after I had it in my tort's enclosure... dust, heat, water... they arn't really hardy peices of equipment.

Ian