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thermostat issues

crzymom2grl2by

crzymom2grl2by

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So I just got my thermostats and thermometers set up today the correct way, under the astro turf carpet instead of probes on top. Now when they're set to 87 degrees the top of the carpet above the probe is only reading 79 degrees which I would assume isn't warm enough. Advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm getting this reading with my laser temp reader.
 
I don't use reptile carpet so I can't comment for sure, but I would think she would be able to get under the carpet if needed. I would leave it as it is
 
Is there a reason you're using carpet rather than the usually recommended aspen shaving or similar substrate? Corn snakes like to burrow, and IME it would solve your temperature issue.

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I just hate the mess of the aspen bedding, having just gotten rid of guinea pigs and not dealing with wood chips all over anymore I wanted something cleaner. I bought a 12ft roll of astro turf and cut out several pieces so that I can clean them regularly and let dry and just use another piece. I do have aspen bedding in my 5gal viv and that little baby has never burrowed, she's always on top of the wood chips if she's not in her vines.
 
Neither of my corns with the astro turf have ever gone under it. It's tight to the edges and quite stiff, so I assume they don't go under cause it would be difficult to squirm under.
 
Hello all, just brought my first corn 2 week ago so I'm a total noob. Just a quick question. I handled her for the first time last night and it went wrong on every level. She wasn't happy and made a run for it, took a few strikes at me and then dropped her bowels all over. Anyway not to be put off I tried again tonight. After her trying to leg it again and biting I finally got hold of her and she moved about for maybe a minute and then just stayed completely still with her tail wrapped around my finger. My question is, is this normal or have I broken my snake by messing up with the first hold?
 
I just went and bought a huge bale of aspen bedding, so we shall see if that solves my problems.
I'd say that your snake was just settling down and feeling less scared when she stopped moving and wrapped around you, but I'm fairly new as well.
 
Sorry dude I didn't know I posted this on your link, I've no idea how to start a new thread. Thanks though hopefully you're right
 
crzymom2grl2by said:
Still wondering if I should turn the temp up on the thermostat so the carpet they're actually on is warm enough?
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I would definitely crank it up until it stays a steady 87° before you put the snake in. Getting the temps right is so important!
 
crzymom2grl2by said:
Neither of my corns with the astro turf have ever gone under it. It's tight to the edges and quite stiff, so I assume they don't go under cause it would be difficult to squirm under.
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Fluff the aspen, you don't need to pack it down.

Just out of curiosity, you keep saying "them", are "them" both in the same viv?
 
I switched to aspen, and one of them just stays in her moist hide now most of the time which is on the cool side. But she's eating right now and hopefully she'll go to her warm hide to digest. She seems to not know what to think about the aspen. Also my other one when I changed her over went and hid behind her water bowl on top of the glass when I put her in and looked out at the wood chips for a long time. But she's under her log over the UTH now I think. Then my non feeder has been up in her vine for the past four days, I think she's brain damaged. But my thermometers just came yesterday, I only had one before, so now that I set hers up I see that even though the thermostat was set at 87 it was really only about 83. So I have to set the therm to 90 or 91 to get heat to 87. Been that way with all three therms. Really weird. They're from Amazon, hydrofarm thermostats for heat mats.
 
Huh, that is odd that they are not holding the right temp. Are both the thermostat probe and the digital thermometer probe next to each other over the center of the UTH?
 
Yes, they're side by side. And my little non feeder who's been in the vines for four days, is right back there this morning after I put her under her hide over the heat pad last night. I could see she's withering away since I quit tube feeding. Her tongue barely even slipped out at all when I moved her. I was hoping to try to feed her again today, but she's too lifeless. I will go buy a mouse and use the tail like Nanci suggested. Maybe after she digests that she'll get some energy back and I can try again, or maybe I should just do tails for a while, not sure. Maybe she's just one that's not meant to live, but darn it after I finally got the thermostat, heat pad, and thermometer I'd hate to see her not make it :(
 
Please know I feel your pain. I had one this summer, a little kinked Orchid named Kiki, that just wouldn't eat. I force fed her but nothing worked. Some are just not to be, they have greater plans in the scheme of things.

Hugs,
Michelle
 
That's sad, I can sort of see it with one that's kinked though, birth defect and all, but Slytherin looks totally fine, just won't eat. My other one that actually has a birth defect where her mouth doesn't shut and she's got a dent in her head eats a pinkie every four days, but still weighs 11g which is what she weighed Nov. 6th when I got her. My other one, Jafar weighed the same Nov. 6th, 11g but is up to two pinkies every 7 days and 18g. For the life of me I can't figure out why Nagini doesn't grow.
 
Funnily enough ..Whilst having a massive re - think in the reptile room ....shuffling vivs around and also moving snakes into bigger vivs etc ..
I was just having a root around looking were all the damn wires were coming and going and I pulled on a wire rather too strongly and ended up looking at two bare wires ( one black one blue ) soldered together .... being held in my hand !

My first thought was panic as everything was still plugged in and so LIVE but I quickly realised that it was the thermostat probe that had simply slipped out of its waterproof sleeve . Anyways I carefully stuck it back in the little black plastic sleeve thingy and it's working perfectly.

Its just that I always presumed that there would be an expensive piece of complex scientific electrical wonderment at the end of a probe !

I'd never of thought that the end of a probe was just two wires soldered together :)
 
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