Does everyone here who breeds have thermostates? I guess to lower the temps and keep it constant I will have to get one. My male is housed in a sterilite container (large underbed)heated with a human heat pad and my female is in a 4x2x2 wooden cage heated with a bulb. Can I put both of these enclosures on 1 thermostate? Im also looking for an inexpensive thermostate any suggestions? Now from what Im reading I should lower temps to daytime of 82 and nightime of 70-74 seperate the boas for like 8-12 weeks, mist during this time bring the temps back up and put the male in the wooden cage with my female do not feed during this time and they should breed is the true? I want to get everything right if I have buy some other stuff like thermostates and such I will, I do have themometer.
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If you try to run both of these cages on one thermostat you'll probably end up frustrated. Your going to have to decide where to place the thermostats probe for your set temperature, and the two cages are obviously going to heat differently due to size and cage material. So, if you set the temp. to say 88 degrees on the 4' cage and place the probe in the appropriate area to accomplish this, the sterilite tub might end up heating up to 100 degrees before the 4' cage hits 88 degrees and kicks off the thermostat. It would be different if working with the same size cages within a stack as you can find a happy medium to get the two cages within a degree or two of each other. Best of luck with your breeding efforts. Take care.
Paul
