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cool side too hot ?

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Tork

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Hi there,

Im new to the world of corns and will be bringing my new corn home September hopefully and so im setting up the heat mat and thermometers and the thermometers are reading 81 F in the cage and I was wondering how to make the cool side cooler ? and if the temps stay in that range will I need a heat mat ?

Thanks
 
You need a thermostat for the UTH. A cheap decent one is the Alife, from The Bean Farm.
 
I have a dimmer setup right now but the uth isn't even on and the floor of the tank is still 81 in the entire tank not just on the warm side, so i was wondering if its ok for the cool side to be that hot or if it should be in the 70 -75 range
 
It's a bit on the warm side. The lack of a temp gradient might be a problem, although Corns are pretty bomb-proof about "less than ideal" conditions and 81 is squarely in their safe temp range. Plenty of folks keep Corns successfully in heated rooms without temp gradients.

Ideally, the floor of the warm side needs to be about 85 degrees and as you say, the cool end in the low-mid 70s. Can you train a fan on one end of the tank, whilst using the mat at the other end?

Also, make sure that your thermometer is an accurate digital one - cheaper cardboard strip or plastic dial-type thermometers are notoriously unreliable. Do you have another that you could double-check with?
 
im going to get a fan and try that tonight and ive got two digital thermometers 1 one each side and they read about the same theres about a .5 of a difference.

thanks so much for all the help :D
 
Just a couple weeks ago when we had some really hot weather (for western WA) my snake's Keeper was about 85 on both sides. The thermostat set at 85 kept the heater off on the warm side, but I wanted her to have at least a little bit of a cooler side as an option so I put a few ice cubes on top of the Keeper lid just over the cool side. As they melted they did bring the temps down a few degrees on that side. My BF has done this for his crestie in warmer weather as well. I don't know that it's a very good long-term solution, but it can help out on those hot days at least.
 
after a very long day of driving around from store to store it turns out its impossible to get a decent fan in a heatwave :p so I guess finding out if I can get the cool side cooler will be another days project
but thanks for the advice about the ice
 
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