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Heat

kwwild Sep 25, 2005 09:20 PM

Hi, New guy here, got my first snake today (ghost corn snake 1 month old).
I am wondering if I have enough heat in my tank. I don't have a temp. guage yet, and can't get one tonight. The tank is a ten gal. aquarium, with an 8x8 exo-terra under tank heater on one end.
No heat lamp. Only a Repti Glo 5.0 lamp.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Replies (1)

jammerz Sep 26, 2005 12:53 AM

As long as your temps are room temperature, your snake should be okay overnight. If you don't have a way to measure temps, you could do more harm than good if the temps are too high. Especially the UTH. If that is too hot, your snake could get a bad burn. I would leave that off completely til you can measure the temp. Also, you should use a red heat bulb and put it on a thermostat to keep the air temp at about 85 over the UTH.

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