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Hello,

I recently moved to new england and live in a miserably drafty house with no temperature uniformity at all!

While temp control was less of an issue in warmer climates, i am now interested in keeping 3 chondros in separate enclosures. They will be in a stacked system. There is a significant vertical temp gradient in my house and the top cage will need to have separate temp control from the bottom etc.

There MUST be a multichannel thermostat that i can use to control several heating devices with several probes. (with an night drop pretty please?!) Worse case scenario I can use a computer with temp probes and x10 controllers...but there MUST be an easier way. I must be missing something. I'm not interested in buying 3 parallel systems to control this unless its honestly the cheapest method.

what do you guys use?

Herpstat PRO, 4 channel with built in night drop - love em!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Yup, what Rainbows said.

I use primarily Barrs cages and have the same ssp. in the same cages at the same elevation. I use a HerpstatND on a power strip and have one cage as a "control". I've done this for years and have noticed almost complete uniformity between the cages. The control cage regulates the other 2-3 plugged into the same strip. All are heated by 45 watt panels.

I use a similar set-up on other cages w/ssp. that have different needs, etc. and it works fine. If there are elevation differences I merely calibrate the "control" cage to where I want it all the rest follow suit.

Bill