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thermostats for light bulds?

Missy

Missy

loves her little darlings
hello all.
i have been keeping corns for quite some time now, however our weather has suddenly decided to stay at a high temp and my concerned for my little ones.

i have 4 viv's stacked on one another, they are all heated by red light bulbs, i have no problem keeping my temps between 75-85f, however as my room is now quite warm (i have a fan but it dont do a lot) my male viv's shot up to 90f a few times, so i immediately turned off his light bulb.
however when im at work all day and no one else is in, i dont want his or any of their temps to shoot up when no one can cool them down, ive been searching around for a thermostat that could control the heat of a light bulb, but is proving quite difficult, i found one for £60, im gonna need 4 of them and this is quite expensive.

any ideas to keeping my snakies good? or where to find a good priced one at?
i dont want to stress them out as their too hot.
i havent noticed any of them in their water bowls at all, my male a few times has but hes the one that gets the hottest in there?

thanx in advance. any help would be appreciated.
:)
 
Maybe you can place a thermostat in your room but outside the vivs, and when the temp in the room rises above 75f he shut down all of your light bulbs.
 
thanx for your replymaeglin calaelen, however its when no one is in the house to check their temps, if they rise to 90f or above then theres no one to switch of their bulbs, i need something to keep their heat regulated.
anyone else have any ideas?

i have looked everywhere for some more thermostats that regulate light bulbs and its just not happening, cannot find anything?
:(
 
The thermostat does switch the lights of in the system I ment, maybe I wasn't clear enough. If you're a little bit handy you can use a thermostat that is used for the heating of houses.
 
As long as your house is at least 75F during the day, heat isn't really needed at all. You could reverse cycle the snake so that the light is on at night when the house is cooler and off during the heat of the day.

Remember that a temp in the low 80s F is only a guide. Most colubrids will actually thrive and stress less in a slightly cooler environment. My observations have been that cooler is better than warmer. I completely shut off the heat to my racks about 30 days ago and won't turn it back on until late September.
 
i found a thermostat at beanfarm.com (us company) and i ordered it and got it shipped to canada for less than 50 canadian, maybe order one from them it will be a little bit extra in shipping to the uk. i find they work amazing. the one i ordered was an alife. works awesome, make sure you have a thermometer hooked up close to the probe of the thermostat so you can tell if the thermostat is acurate...wouldnt want to cook any snakes now would we lol.
 
Northern Ohio still dips into the 40's and 50's so I made the rheostat described in a thread and it works fine. It adjusts the brightness of the bulb so you can adjust the temps up or down. Use the search, type rheostat and pick the thread called " How to make your own rheostat for less than $7..." It's cheap (like me) and effective.
 
Not that there is anything wrong with it, but be aware that controlled dimming greatly diminishes the life of any filament bulb. I only mention this because heat lamps aren't cheap.
 
Yea Gary, I know. Good thing it was only a 10 gallon tank. I was able to get away with regular cheapo light bulbs. Normally I just turn the light off at night, but had been using it to provide night heat to rehab a girl that regurged. I put her in a 29 gallon last week and switched to UTH. Based on wattage alone, I think UTH is less expensive to run than light bulbs anyway.

And since you have all succeeded in infecting me with the "just one more corn" bug, I'll need to start thinking efficiency! Got 1 in March of 04, 1 in April of 05 and will have 3 more by August 1st!

Flex watt will be next! :crazy02:
 
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