• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Viv Temp. Gradient?

T

thrullz

New member
Hello,

I recently upgraded my setup to be better for my corn. I bought a larger (more suitable) UTH, as well as a thermostat to maintain the temp. So far, the 'warm' side is doing very well, staying between about 83 and 86. However, the 'cool' side refuses to cool off. It tends to hover in the low 80s.

Is this a problem? What is the best way to lower approx. half of the tank to an acceptable temperature? I have a small fan at the top of the tank to keep air circulating, but it isn't doing anything for the temp on the cooler side.

As a brief aside, my corn just had its second shed since I've owned it. The first shed went great - all one piece. However, the latest shed was horrible. The eyecaps came off as expected, and the skin was one solid piece up until about 1/3 of the way down, where it began shredding and tearing into little pieces. I will be more diligent about humidity in the tank (the hygrometer I have seems to be broken), but would the temperature have anything to do with this poor shed? (It has been cooler than it should be for the last week or so before I installed the new UTH/thermostat).

Thanks!
 
I'm curious about this as well. Since I turned my walk-in closet into a reptile room, moving the snakes and geckos in there, I've had trouble with temp. gradients as well. Even with the door open, and a small fan turned on, there tends to be less than 10 degrees difference between the cool and warm sides of the tanks. The small space, combined with the use of flexwatt and cfl lights on the gecko tanks, causes the ambient temp to rise a few degrees. I've been debating fashioning a small diy a/c using a fan, a water filled tank, and an aquarium pump and chiller, just not sure what difference it would make.
 
I don't think it is a problem. I have a friend who breeds hundreds of corn snakes a year, along with ball pythons and boas. He has one room that he keeps at a constant 88 degrees in the day and 82 at night and all the snakes are happy in there :)
I think that as long as you do not get into the 90's you'll be fine.
 
Also, the fan may be to account for the poor shed, it may have dried out the cage. Do you have your snake in a screen top? If so, since you live in AZ, wrap it with ceran wrap to help hold in humidity :)
 
Yeah, I've read that partially covering the top could help with the humidity, but I wanted to clarify the heat issue first. I just don't want the lil fella to be suffering because he can't find a cool spot. However, being a reptile, this didn't seem to be that big of a deal.

I was hoping the fan wouldn't cause too much trouble -- its monsoon season right now in AZ. Its so humid one needs to sit in front of a fan just to stop sweating lol.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top