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heating problems?? or not?

:( seeee

that's the problem, ive heard different views, i want a corn, but don't want it sick or dead

but after reading his it gave me an idea....

.....im gonna find some carboard, the thick kind, used for moving boxes and such, and put it on the very bottom right below the substrate to act as an insulator from the heat. That way if the snake does decide to go to the bottom it won't burn itself as quickly (example: metal at 100 degrees will burn you alot faster than the air temp. at 100 degrees)
 
mpharris1989 said:
:( seeee

that's the problem, ive heard different views, i want a corn, but don't want it sick or dead

but after reading his it gave me an idea....

.....im gonna find some carboard, the thick kind, used for moving boxes and such, and put it on the very bottom right below the substrate to act as an insulator from the heat. That way if the snake does decide to go to the bottom it won't burn itself as quickly (example: metal at 100 degrees will burn you alot faster than the air temp. at 100 degrees)
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I would be careful of cardboard, if you go to a Lowes or Home Depot and pick up a piece of ceramic tile for underneath your aspen bedding that works good I hear.
 
ya!! that's another good idea, basically anything that works as a better insulator than glass, but that's not harmful to snakes

i was thinking the cardboard would be good since it has air pockets in it
 
The only reason I said avoid cardboard is that if the UTH failed it could be a fire hazard. I have never heard of a UTH failing but I don't want to take a chance. Thats why I say don't use a thermostat on your UTH, just one more electronic device to fail. The key to this all is a digital thermometer point and shoot to check temps all the time.
 
zorro said:
The only reason I said avoid cardboard is that if the UTH failed it could be a fire hazard. I have never heard of a UTH failing but I don't want to take a chance. Thats why I say don't use a thermostat on your UTH, just one more electronic device to fail. The key to this all is a digital thermometer point and shoot to check temps all the time.
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well ya, but i would'nt have the cardboard under the tank, and under the uh.
i would have it on the inside of the tank under the bedding, over the glass, which has a uh beneath it.

i could see the cardboard catching fire due to sparks and such from the electrical stuff. but i doubt it would catch fire from the 138 degree glass (if so wouldn't the aspen bedding catch just as easily???)
 
No I didn't mean under the tank, just on top of the glass above the UTH, I'm just to careful and that's why I said tile. If there is a one in a million chance it will happen to me. You've heard of Murphy?
 
zorro said:
No I didn't mean under the tank, just on top of the glass above the UTH, I'm just to careful and that's why I said tile. If there is a one in a million chance it will happen to me. You've heard of Murphy?
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...uhh no don't think so, why?
 
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