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Using two UTH?

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rum300

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I have one UTH with thermostat on my 40 gal breeder tank and have no problem keeping that side at the recommended 85F but the cold side is constantly below 70F. I have a space heater now keeping it at around 74-78F but they eat a lot of electricity. I was wonder what you guys/gals think of putting another large UTH with thermostat on the cold side and setting it to 75F. I am thinking because they use a fraction of the power that I would save $$$ and regulate the tank much better. Any thoughts or issues I haven't thought of?
 
rum300 said:
I have one UTH with thermostat on my 40 gal breeder tank and have no problem keeping that side at the recommended 85F but the cold side is constantly below 70F. I have a space heater now keeping it at around 74-78F but they eat a lot of electricity. I was wonder what you guys/gals think of putting another large UTH with thermostat on the cold side and setting it to 75F. I am thinking because they use a fraction of the power that I would save $$$ and regulate the tank much better. Any thoughts or issues I haven't thought of?
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Cant see a problem with that but to heat the whole tank why not use a ceramic heater instant hot side and gets the ambient temp up as well do away with the mat altogether still a damm site cheaper than heating the room unless its a rep room anyway
 
Don't worry too much about the cool side if it's not going below about 65F. For my two corns, it was about 67-70F for a few months; they're fine. For all my snakes, it's been like that the past two weeks since we got a sudden cold wave. They're all fine, though I may re-arrange the BP's to be a bit warmer since they can't handle that too well.... but the corns should be fine. They're hardier than we all realize.
 
Hey ShenziSixaxis,

Do not worry about the cool side let it go as cool as it will. What you need to do is have a hide on the warm side and in the middle and on the cool side so the snake can find a hide at the temp it wants.

Love the Fatman
 
I'd agree with comments above. As long as there's an area of the optimum warm temp, then the cool side isn't really critical. I didn't switch my central heating on until December last year and temps in my lounge were consistently in the 60s for weeks. The Corns were absolutely fine with their UTHs at the warm end and no other heating. I'd save your money and turn off the space heater.
 
Thanks for the reply guys/gals. I should have mentioned that I do have three rock cave hides in the tank, one in each "zone" and one in the middle as well as climbing wood/vines across each of the zones. Also, I have water sources at the cool side and the middle but none on the warm side except that I do more it over to the warm side when he is shedding.
 
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