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Need some help getting ideas for cooling lepidus and klauberi here in the land of inconsistent cold (Florida). It's approaching the middle of January and it is 82 degrees during the day and upper 60's at night. Our cold spell may still come, but it most likely won't stay with us any great length of time.

I have used a wine refrigerator, which can get costly, especially each time I move up in size. I experimented with a used refrigerator. I placed it on the lowest setting and used a Johnson control just to see what the temps inside were. Even at the lowest setting the probe recorded 38 degrees. I am trying to reach a consistent temp of 52 degrees.

If any of you have used a regular refrigerator could you share how you accomplished this? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for your time and advice in advance.
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John Blume
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If you can locate the refrigerator temp probe/thermostat, disconnect it so the fridge is running on the Johnson Control temp probe instead.

We hit 80 degrees here today and tomorrows high is supposed to be 52 degrees. I know were you are coming from. My snake building is at a constant 50 degrees by using a Johnson Control Thermostat conected to an air conditioner, which has had the temp probe unplugged.
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Tim Cole
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