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I'm moving my blood to a 12qt rubbermaid, but I can't get the temps right. I'm trying to get the temps to 80-82 on the cool end, 85 ambient temp on the warm end, and around 85 on the floor over the flexwatt. The room temp is 70 and I'm using 11" flexwatt under 1/2 the tub. The flexwatt is on a ZooMed reostat that's turned down as far as it goes, and the temps are 72 on the cool end, 78 ambient temp on the warm end, and the floor over the flexwatt is 85. I tried putting a 50 watt red heat lamp 1' above the top of the tub, and that got the ambient temps up to 80 on the cool end and 85 on the warm end, but the floor over the flexwatt went up to 95. I tried raising the tub 3/4" above the flexwatt, but the floor was still 90. I also tried moving the heat lamp farther away, but no matter what I do, either the ambient temp is too low, or the floor temp is too high. Does anybody have any ideas besides raising the room temp?
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Have you tried using a thermostat and reflectix under the flexwatt? This works well in cooler rooms
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>>Have you tried using a thermostat and reflectix under the flexwatt? This works well in cooler rooms
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I haven't used a thermostat because the heat tape only gets about 95 at full power, I'm not sure why, I made a post asking about it about a month ago and you tried to help me then. At first I assumed the floor temp was going up to 95 because of the heat tape, but I tried using just the heat lamp, and the floor still got up to 92, and the bottom of the tub felt pretty warm. I'm not sure if reflectix would help, the floor temp is okay, but I need to get the ambient temp up about 10 degrees. I tried putting a Cobra heat mat on top of the tub, but it didn't really do anything.
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MY COLLECTION:
1.0 '04 Columbian BCI
0.1 '05 Sumatran Blood Python
1.2 Ball Pythons

MY WISHLIST:
A Northern Blue-Tongue Skink
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Hogg Island Boas
0.1 Columbian BCI
1.1 Sumatran Short-Tail Pythons
1.1 Borneo Short-Tail Pythons
1.1 Dumerils Boas
1.2 Spotted Pythons
2.4 African House Snakes
2.4 Bearded Dragons
1.2 Rankins Dragons
2.6 Crested Geckos
1.1 Purebred Dobermans
0.1 black German Shepherd

Yeah 95 is very cool for flexwatt.. I would say the refectix would solve your problem. Even the CObra on the top of the cage covered with the reflectix would probably raise your temps... Thats really something you will have to play with to get right, unfortunatly..
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>>Yeah 95 is very cool for flexwatt.. I would say the refectix would solve your problem. Even the CObra on the top of the cage covered with the reflectix would probably raise your temps... Thats really something you will have to play with to get right, unfortunatly..
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MY COLLECTION:
1.0 '04 Columbian BCI
0.1 '05 Sumatran Blood Python
1.2 Ball Pythons

MY WISHLIST:
A Northern Blue-Tongue Skink
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Hogg Island Boas
0.1 Columbian BCI
1.1 Sumatran Short-Tail Pythons
1.1 Borneo Short-Tail Pythons
1.1 Dumerils Boas
1.2 Spotted Pythons
2.4 African House Snakes
2.4 Bearded Dragons
1.2 Rankins Dragons
2.6 Crested Geckos
1.1 Purebred Dobermans
0.1 black German Shepherd

I will send you an email...
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