Corn likes it HOTT

[Sanebedlam]

Ok so cronus my adult male seems to like high temps. He is in a 20L tank with a a zoomed UTH and zoomed Rheostat on the lowest setting on the rheostat on glass temps run around 93 F this worried me until I noticed that he seems to stay in the hot hide right over the heat anyways even though he has a papertowel tub in the middle of the tank and another hide on the cool side. So he could easily be hidden at any point in the temperature gradient and he likes it hot.

 

[Lennycorn]

Can you but a pieice of tile above the uth to help disperse the heat. 93 is a tad to warm.

 

[Kokopelli]

They sometimes remain on boiling heating bricks and get cooked because they do not notice the heat. No one is positive if it is due to un-sensitive nerve endings on their skin or stress... but you can't trust your snake to know what's best for him if within the tank there are temperatures far above the recommended heat levels.

If it's a degree or two more.. no biggy.

Not saying you don't know what you're doing, just suggesting caution.

Also, snakes would sometimes seek out hotter spots when digesting and fighting diseases as their immune system functions better when the temperature is hotter.

 

[Rich in KY]

Zach be careful. Cronus may like the hot spot, but he may not know that he can receive damage if he stays there too long.

Try moving the "hot" hide to the middle of the tank and see if you goes there. If may just be that he likes that hide.

 

[Sanebedlam]

I will look to see what he does. I do know that he had a possible minor RI when I purchased him (His old owners hadn't cleaned his cage in quite a while and the dirt substrate was extremely moist and he had no decent heat source. So I did want to give him some warm heat to help clean that up (only symptom was wheezing) I will look at trying to get a tile or something like that when I can afford it I plan to just get a thermostat but I couldn't find one for sale anywhere here in town haha.

 

[Flagg]

If you can, return the crappy rheostat and get a lamp dimmer from walmart for $9. They will dial the temp down as low as you want. I'll never understand why the ZooMed rheostats aren't designed to work properly.

 

[Sanebedlam]

Ya its stupid there is no reason the rheostat can't go from no power flow to full power flow. I emailed zoo med they said I could return it to them and all but I don't have the recipt anymore. I will look into the lamp dimmers.

If you can, return the crappy rheostat and get a lamp dimmer from walmart for $9. They will dial the temp down as low as you want. I'll never understand why the ZooMed rheostats aren't designed to work properly.

 

[Dude123]

if that temp is right against the glass, then the temp on top of the substrate under the hid should be different, unless there is nothing under the hide. I use aspen, a pretty deep layer of it. so for temps in the low to mid 80s just under the surface of the aspen, my directly on glass temps would probably be mid to high 90s. there is a layer of aspen above the glass so the only way to reach those temps is to burrow to them. I can't see it being a huge issue as long as the snake can get away to cooler temps, and the temps are not high enough to burn the skin. I'm sure in the wild temps reach the low 90s on really hot sunny days. also the temps in my tank changed slighlty as my room temps do.

 

[Sanebedlam]

Ya I use aspen as well and the on glass temps are around 93 at hottest usually more like 90. And he is healthy now then when I got him. I am thinking I will probably get a dimmer eventually but for now all is well.