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Keeping Temps stable??

BabyMowgli

BabyMowgli

just one more....
There is a lot of temp changes in my room and I am trying to do what I can to stablize it but it has having an affect on my snakes temps. I have digital thermometers in each tank and every time I check the temps they are different.

My ball python tanks are ranging from 88-95 on the warm side and 78-88 ambient air temp.

The other tanks are similar but the corn snake tank dosn't get as warm.

Is there a rheostat that you can set the temp on and it will keep the heat pads that temp?? I can only find the ones that let you adjust it up and down, which won't do anything for me!

anyway, let me know as my snakes are needing some help!
 
Rheostats don't adjust temps, they simply adjust power flow to whatever they're hooked up to. To keep temps steady you need a proportional thermostat.
 
I would recommend buying a Herpstat thermostat. It's proportional, that's why it can hold the temps so steady. So unlike a cheap "on/off" thermostat, which heats the mat up to, say 83, and shuts off (and the mat keeps going to like 86) then the mat cools, and the thermostat doesn't come back on till 78, the proportional thermostat supplies more power to the mat as the temp drops, and less power as the mat approaches the set temp, so you don't have that overheating thing going on, and it doesn't shut off (unless the room temp is over the set temp of the thermostat) so the mat never gets a chance to cool way off because the power is off. I know $110-$135 _seems_ like a lot of money, but it saves you so much worrying and adjusting, it's worth it. Plus, for the more expensive Herpstat Nightdrop ($135) you get high/low temp alarms. My Herpstats hold the temp to at least within a degree of what I have set, and usually better. I even have them on my little 10 gallons now.

How's Coldy Snake doing? Well, I hope!
 
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