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Tempature Trouble...

G

Green Bean

Reptile Chick
Hey all-

Wow I'm busy tonight......

OK, I have both Uno and Phantom's tanks side by side. They are glass. I have 1 UTH on each tank attached to 1 rhinostat each. (Each have their own UTH and rhinostat) They are both set on LOW. Phantom's tank reads 90.6° while Uno's reads 76.3°, their tanks are set on a stand they are 5 inches from the wall and 3 inches apart from eachother.

Now I am not sure if everyone has to do this or what, but it seems like I am constantly changing the tempatures. The apartment stay between 70 and 75 degrees depending if I wake up in the morning cold. At which that point both tanks have dropped down to 60°.

With bedding in the tank, they're reached highs of 106 in which i turn of the rhinostat. They drop back down quickly and I then turn the thing back onto it's lowest setting. The rhinostats have never had it to the Medium setting....

So I am not sure what I am doing wrong....should I just invest in a thermostat? If so do they make them where two heat pads can be controlled at once? I'm just really concerned I am doing something wrong.

The apartment is at 78 right now and I just checked to see if there was a vent behind the tanks and the stand. There isn't one. Phantom's tank is at 91 and Uno's is at 75. I just turned off Phantom's rhinostat, so the heat doesn't rise. The brand of both the heatmat and the rhinostat is ZooMeds. I think........

Will the constant change in tempatures have any type of adverse health effect on them? I check them both reagulerly. Both have good BM, both are eating well, no regurges. No clicky noises, no signs of URI.

Any ideas?
 
I'd recommend investing in a pair of thermostats. They're not all that expensive and will solve your temperature problems for the most part once you have them dialed in correctly.
 
safer to use two but you can use 1 thermostat if:
viv construction size/material identical
uth identical
wattage of both uth < thermostat rating
use thermometer (temp gun is good) to verify thermostat settings are correct. good idea checking for position near vents. sunlight could also cause 1 tank to overheat and not the other if they aren't exposed the same.
 
The rheostat you're using is, sadly, crap. LOL

Zoo Med's heat regulating devices suck. The rheostats you get at Target or Wal-Mart are much better, and probably cost less ($8-13ish).
 
Have you put your hand on the heat sorce in the tank that is 75? Sounds as if it might not be working at all.
 
BOO! said:
Where are your thermometers located?
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Right now I have a substrate of newspaper so I can moniter their BM. So I have the thermometer on the glass the probe on top of the newspaper, in their pumpkin hides. There is a picture of their set ups in the gallery. I that picture there is aspen though. While I had the aspen in the cages there was a thin layer over the UTH, the probe, and then a thin layer over the probe.


Rakes said:
Have you put your hand on the heat sorce in the tank that is 75? Sounds as if it might not be working at all.
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It's very warm to the touch, not burning hot...

JasonGranger said:
The rheostat you're using is, sadly, crap. LOL

Zoo Med's heat regulating devices suck. The rheostats you get at Target or Wal-Mart are much better, and probably cost less ($8-13ish).
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:sigh: I am beginning to realize that, lol! What brand of rheostat and UTH do you suggest?
 
I have a ZooMed UTH, and just an inline dimmer switch (rheostat) I got from Home Depot (sorry, don't recall the brand, but I think they're all pretty much the same). It's got a slide bar on it, and I only move that a hair's width if I move it at all. It's very sensitive, and was a practise in patience to set it. I've never even come close to setting it at the 'half way' point...just barely over the 'on' position. My next purchase will be a thermostat...just to make it all the safer and easier to manage.

:-offtopic I love the pumkins!! (I'm an autumn person, too.) I might suggest another hide on the cool side.
 
Yeah, I'll be investing in a thermostat now...

As for the hides I have them hidden, on the cool side under all the fall leaves. They are paper tube rolls.
 
FWIW, ZooMed rheostats may be crap but their thermostat 500R works just fine. I've got 3 of them regulating 4 tanks for 9 months now.
 
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