On thermostats for belly pads, can you use one thermostat for more than one tank or do I have to buy a thermostat for each individual tank? I have two gray Vision tanks (211 size).
Thanks!
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heatpad thermostats
markalan
Feb 26, 2006 01:56 PM
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normal_bp
Feb 26, 2006 03:22 PM
as long as everything is consistant you can use just one. ie. same size cages, same brand and size heat pad, same location of your cages. if this is all true then there shouldnt be much difference between the temps in each cage.
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0.1 CB 2005 Normal Ball Python @ 2.5' /415g
Grey Boaphile 221D, Exoterra Lg Desert UTH, 2 Lg ESU hide boxes, Ranco digital thermostat, 18" fluorescent light, Lg water bowl, 60# indented paper as substrate
wftright
Feb 26, 2006 04:00 PM
If you have only two tanks, I'd recommend getting two thermostats. I have little experience with snakes, but I've talked to a fellow engineer about this issue in a more general sense. If everything is the same in both cages, then you can regulate one and assume that the other will follow. The question is how certain are you that both cages will always be under the same conditions. Do you have them at the same level in your room, the same distance from doors and windows, with the same amount of sunlight from windows falling on them, with the exact same amount of substrate in each tank, the same humidity in each tank? If all of these things aren't the same, then what one tank sees could be different from what the other tank sees. In addition, if you have separate undertank heaters for each cage, one thermostat will not shut off the heat in the cage without the probe if the heat pad in that cage fails in a way that causes runaway temperatures. One thermostat is better than no thermostats, and one good one might even be better than two bad ones. However, two good ones would be safer.
Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.
3dmike
Feb 27, 2006 01:50 PM
The bigger concern is safety. You have but one probe in most cases. So you only measure one tank. If the unmeasured tank has a failed heater eitehr cold or worse overheats your thermostat will not operate to solve this as it is measuring the other tank.
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Mike and David at 3-D Pythons
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