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Probe Themometer?

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dusterdust

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When you guys refer on here to the digital probe themometers, you guy means the same kind you use to check turkeys and food right? I mean, you just use it to check temps every once in awhile...I could get one off of ebay and wait for it, or I could pay 6 bucks and get one of those analog dial exo terra dual dial things...couldn't I just use that and place it around the tank once a week and observe what the temps are doing? I have a heat mat on one side, a lot of wood substrate though, to control the heat on the surface as I don't have a thermostat...
Dustin
 
Actually Dustin, they are reffering too Digital Temperature meters that have a probe at the end of a long cord which is to be put inside your tank on the warm side and kept there so you can always know what the temp is and that its not overheated. The probe goes under the substrate and stays there all the time, with the digital readout being displayed somewhere convienient for you to read it.
 
As for your next topic of a heat mat with no thermostat. The snakes will still burrow through the wood chippings and get to the glass surface over the heater which can burn the animal. Heat mats can get that glass surface quickly up to 115 degrees.

You should have a thermostat to regulate this which would also have a probe that gets placed down in the substrate over the area, BUT if you are determined not to by a thermostat, at minimum please cut a sturdy peice of cardboard that will fit into the bottom of your tank snuggly, and then put the substrate over top of that. Make sure its stiff enough that the snake won't burrow underneath it. The idea is that if the snake burrows it only gets as far as the cardboard and doesnt burn himself at the glass level. OR you could put something between the heater and the aquarium so that the extreme heat will be reduced at the glass surface.

Overall you should have a thermostat. It is simply one of the things that are required to properly care for a snake. Best wishes to you and your animal.
 
So do I buy BOTH a thermometer AND a thermostat with a probe? And do I place the probe under the substrate? In it, or on top of it to regulate temperature in the mid 80's?
 
Yes, you need both a thermometer and a thermostat or rheostat of some sort. I use the kind you can get at any hardware store to measure regular weather temperatures. As for running the wire outside the tank, I don't. I have the kind that displays both the indoor and outdoor temps on the same screen. I put the unit on my cool side and the probe on the warm side.
 
I have been very happy with my temp gun for checking surface temperatures. They're about $25. I use mine all the time for all the herps
 
I keep the indoor.outdoor dual display thermometer inside so I can see both cool and warm temps on the display. the thermostat probe wire I just have going over the lip of the tank and push the lid down over it.

You should put both the thermometer and thermostat probes under the substrate right over the UTH.

The Zoo Med 500R works fine, I use several of them myself.
 
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