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raiders3521

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I'm new at this, I'd appreciate some advice...my son has a year-old corn, should I be using a under-tank heater for him? I put it on last night & this morning the snake was up at the top edge of his tank (unusual for him)...we keep our thermostat at 67 at night, 70 during the day...help please!
 
raiders3521 said:
I'm new at this, I'd appreciate some advice...my son has a year-old corn, should I be using a under-tank heater for him? I put it on last night & this morning the snake was up at the top edge of his tank (unusual for him)...we keep our thermostat at 67 at night, 70 during the day...help please!
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Unless you have a rack system, you should use a UTH. But YOUR themostat as almost nothing to do with the temperatures in your snakes VIV (tank).
You need to but a thermometer with a probe (indoor /out door one). Which you should find at the pet store or Walmart... etc. The probe should be resting on top of the bedding, above the UTH. And you should place one of the hide there too. This would be the "warm side" of the Viv. Now on the cool side with another hide I place a cheap "stick on" thermometer just on the bedding. Now the temps on the warm side should be 80- 85 and the cool side 70 -75. That should do you for now .

Let us know how it going.

Good Luck :santa:
 
Lennycorn said:
The probe should be resting on top of the bedding, above the UTH.
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It's a good idea if you are using UTH to put the probe under the aspen (or whatever substrate you are using) right on top of the glass. This way you know that if your snake burrows at night, when you aren't around to watch, that it won't come into contact with extremely hot glass and get a burn. If the probe is on top of the bedding and reads mid-80s its a safe bet that the glass underneath is much warmer.
I keep my thermometer probe right against the glass covered in aspen under the warm-side hide. I never let the temp get over 86 on the glass and my yearling has never had a regurge. I use a rheostat to control the temp of the UTH. A thermostat from a reptile supply place would work just as well (or maybe better!).

Good luck :)
 
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