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Checking Temps-plz recommend

DLena

DLena

Corns are goram shiny!
Several people are using a laser to check temps around the viv. Could you please recommend a product? :bowdown:
Also, probe placement: I have probes taped to the bottom glass in the tanks, directly over the UTH mat for the hot hide and one taped to the glass in the cool hide. The aspen is on top of the probes.
The UTH mats are connected to Jump Start thermostats.
Cool hides use ZooMed probes. Hot hides use National Geographic probes, which also measure the ambient air temp.
Am I understanding that I could put the probes outside the tanks, between the UTH and the glass? Then use a laser to check actual in-tank temps? If so, this would get rid of all my in-tank wires.
 
I have one of these: http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00837ZGRY

And yeah, you can basically just use the thermostat probes on the outside and adjust temps til they look good with the temp gun. For a few weeks I had two hatchling tubs sitting on the edge of a single large mat and I just taped the probe so that it was touching the mat between the two tubs. They both snoozed in the warm and cool sides about the same amount.
 
That's the gun I had that failed after 6 months but I am that unlucky guy that will get the 1 out of a 1000 bad one :(
I would use it only for checking heat tapes to verify that they are still working.

Keep in mind that temp guns measure object temps. It will only tell you what the temp of the object is. What we want to know is the air temp where the snake is and a probed thermometer will tell you that. The best 2 spots to monitor the ambient temp (air that touches the snakes body) is inside the hot and cool side hides. Make your adjustments based on those readings. Putting the probes buried in aspen will give you readings of the trapped air in the aspen.
 
I have a similar one from China that I got on eBay. There are literally hundreds that are the same specs and look alike. One difference is that mine uses AAA batteries. I find them cheaper and easier to deal with.

Do test against a known good thermometer. Within a certain range I don't think price or "brand name" matter much. It seems there are big factories in China that pump these out. They are then packaged and "branded". So pick one out and go with it. You have a better than even chance of getting one that works correctly.

Edit: I found it in my history and it's Chinese but I bought it from a place in Illinois. Guess I didn't feel like waiting 6 weeks for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NON-CONTACT...HT-HANDHELD-/130979214461?hash=item1e7ef8347d
 
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