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My warm end temps.

Droptines

Droptines

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So,,tonight I put in the hide that I'm going to use on the warm end.A rock dome cave,,it matches the snake cave thats on the cool side.
The probe is sitting under the warm hide,,it had a reading of 84.6,,,but again, until I get my thermostat,its hotter on the bottom.I was thinking maybe a sheet of thin Styrofoam under the coconut bark.Now I know if I bring the bottom glass down to 85 the top of the substrate is going to be in the 70's.
What are the chances the snake will want to tunnel under the coconut bark,,its not the softest,smoothest stuff to push your face through.Can't snakes tell when they are sitting on the right temp.??.It would seem that they are lacking some VERY basic survival instincts,no ??.I mean why bother to thermal regulate if you cant tell when your too warm/cold in the first place ?.
Am I making any sense ? :eek1:
 
well the best thing would be to put a thin layer of cardboard over the heat pad... so if he does borrow it WILL be hotter but he will not be able to contact the GLASS which gets "Hotter" then Cardboard would meaning it would burn him.
 
84.6 is a good temp for the warm side, but a thermostat is definately advisable since Mo Nature doesn't sit still. Corns are burrowers by nature and should be ok in bark, but aspen is probably the substrate of choice of most keepers. It's cheap and alot easier to see poop in than dark bark.
 
I will be getting a thermostat for sure,,just wish it wasn't so hard to find one,,off line.Check with 3 places last night,,no luck.I still know of 2 or 3 more to check at.
 
Droptines said:
I will be getting a thermostat for sure,,just wish it wasn't so hard to find one,,off line.Check with 3 places last night,,no luck.I still know of 2 or 3 more to check at.
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You don't need to spend all that money on a thermostat. Get a lamp dimmer switch from Lowe's or Home Depot or you can make one of these. I'm presently using 4 of them and they work great.

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19168&highlight=rheostat

All of these will allow you to regulate the temps.
 
Tonight I stopped at a Walmarts on my way home ,just to see what they might have.I found a dimmer that was already built into a socket.So I got that and a screw in plug.When I got home I screwed the dimmer unit into a dome light(minus the dome),then screwed the receptacle into that and plugged the heat pad into that.PRESTO,,,heat regulator,,for now anyway.It works perfect.With the dimmer turned down, I dropped the temp. at the bottom of the tank from 117 to 96.I know 96 is still too high,but this is at the bottom of 1 1/2" of coconut bark.At the surface,under the hide,,its about 83 to 84.Not to bad.I don't see how an animal/reptile could allow it self to rest on something SO hot it burns its skin,,,but I don't think 95-96 is warm enough to burn reptile flesh,,I may be wrong.I'm REAL close now,,just need to get my corn...
 
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