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Thermostat Question...

Tattery

Tattery

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Hey there! I lurk on here frequently and have a question for you guys regarding thermostats...
What do you use? The only reptile specific thermostat thing I've come across at pet stores costs around $50! I have 5 snakes; I can't afford to spend that much on top of everything else! So... I was thinking. Since a lot of people on here have scads and scads of snakes, what the heck do you use? I mean, I can't imagine that you have the money to pay $50 per snake on just a thermostat! Is there some much cheaper alternative floating around out there that I could easily find?

I would be very appreciative of your input, thank you!

-Tat
 
I have a $130 thermostat attached to my length of flexwatt. Before that...I used a $35 thermostat that could have up to 2 heat pats attached to it.
 
I was using two "cheapie" thermostats that I think were $20-30 each. Repti-500 or something like that? I have a herpstat4 now, which was, with shipping, $340? Ish? Something like that. Worth the price for the peace of mind knowing it's high quality and has failsafes built in. It's like four thermostats in one because it has four places to plug in heating elements.

I'm using three of the four right now. Corn snake on one, leo on second, boa and two pythons on third (used an extension cord so they could all be on the same one). I've been meaning to put my crested and gargoyle geckos on the fourth, but haven't gotten around to it yet. They will be trickier: smaller pieces of flexwatt, on the tank side rather than the bottom, they don't need high heat. But I let my apt get cooler in the winter so right now they've got red head bulbs on them that I have to turn on/off manually.

You don't need a thermostat for every single tank, if the snakes in those tanks need a similar temperature. Just keep in mind that if the tanks/tubs are stacked, the temperature will be higher at the top than the bottom. So you'll have to monitor the temperatures closely to make sure they're all staying in the correct range.
 
You can attach the thermostat to a power strip to run several UTHs off of it! They just have to be in the same size enclosure and the exact same UTH. :)
 
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