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Question about UTH

Brizzle

Brizzle

Craziness
I was just wondering how many watts would be perfect for corns with a UTH..
I'm looking at Petco..and I'm not sure which one to get
 
No matter what wattage you get you will need to get a thermostat or rheostat to control the temps, a UTH can get far too hot for your corn.
 
I don't tend to look at wattage, to be honest. I go by size. My mats cover about 1/2 of the tank and are controlled by a thermostat which pretty much takes care of things for me.
 
Cool..thanks.
A UTH seems so much easier than a lamp..
I'll have to have my boyfriend..mister engineer..build a thermostat for me..He'd probably have fun doing it
 
Brizzle said:
Cool..thanks.
A UTH seems so much easier than a lamp..
I'll have to have my boyfriend..mister engineer..build a thermostat for me..He'd probably have fun doing it
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I made 8 of my own with the instructions from a thread here, very easy, and works great. :cheers:
 
You can get them at Wal-mart for like $8. It's what I have on all my tanks and they work great.
 
Howdy!
I've used uth's before, but now use mostly heat cable. Buy one size smaller than recommended. (To cover no more than a third of the tank bottom.) Corns don't need as much heat as some other snakes. Also, make sure you don't let the snake rest directly on the glass over a uth. I put a piece of paper over the glass, then put aspen on top. They can burn their bellies if you don't.
Cheers!
 
kimbyra said:
I put a piece of paper over the glass, then put aspen on top. They can burn their bellies if you don't.
Cheers!
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They can burn their bellies if you do, too. They can and will get under a piece of paper. The safest way is to regulate your UTH with a thermostat or rheostat.
 
Thats true Becky, though I've never had it happen because the paper lays so flat against the glass... but a rheo/therm is always the way to go.
Cheers!
 
I'm just being cautious. Every snake I've had on paper towel or newspaper has gotten underneath. When my king snake was little, I thought I'd lost him. I couldn't find him anywhere. I pulled out all his hides--no snake. I took out all the aspen--no snake. Finally I pulled up the newspaper and there he was. He nearly gave me a heart attack, but since then, I've not trusted paper to keep them off the glass.
 
When I got smart and got a real digital therometer and found out that my temps were reaching over 100 on the warm end, I put my tanks up on a paperback and had a express mail cardboard envelope in the tank under the aspen and it was still reaching 99... so that paper isn't going to do much of anything. I ended up putting the cages up on two thick paperbacks and that was enough to keep it at a rate that while high was a little more acceptable rates until my thermostats arrived.
 
Yeah newspapers and papertowels get jumbled up quickly, but I take a piece of plain paper, like copy paper, and he never disturbs it. Its just to flat and thin an edge.
The thing about UTH's is the temps can vary a lot, and they really are made for snakes and such that like warmer temps. I used to use all the same brand and size (Zoomed mini), and some be hot enough to would melt plastic while others were tame. Of course now I just use heat cables, which are steady and mild, until I get fancy cages with underbelly heat....
 
I also think it's worth mentioning that when keeping a corn with a regulated temperature, until you get a rheo/thermostat, it's much safer for the corn to be too cool than too warm, (though heat is important to aid in digestion).
Snakes will simply slow down a bit even when the temperatures are much lower than usual, but a couple of degrees too high can be fatal.
 
Lore said:
I made 8 of my own with the instructions from a thread here, very easy, and works great. :cheers:
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hi any chance you coud place the thread/link on here for us
cheers squeebo
 
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