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fiery_redhead17

fiery_redhead17

Kiwi Chick
hey there guys i need your help. My husband purchased a juvenile snowcorn for me as an early Christmas present a couple of days ago. Since then i have been trying to get my 10 gallon tank the prefect temps. I am using aspen as substrate as i have heard that is good and of course have a hideaway on both the cool and warm side of the tank. I also have a cardboard tube in the middle, water dish and a manzineta branch going upwards. For heating I have the option of an exo-terra 8 watt UTH which i have under the tank on the far left under his warm hideaway and have some cardboard and a few layers of paper over top of it inside the tank but it still seems to get a lil too hot, particular during the day and an exo-terra 75 watt infrared heat lamp on a dimmer as a basking spot. I have had only the heat pad on at night and today tried only the lamp during the day as the heat pad seems to hot but i cant seem to get an even temp with it. To have it around 85 in his warm hut its like 95 on his warm hut (the basking spot). Which i know is too hot. I have been checking the temps with a digital thermometer. It doesn't have a probe but I have been sitting them on the bottom of the tank rather than the top of the substate as I know he can tunnel under it and leaving it for like 30 mins and checking it. Ive been taking the temp in his warm house, cool house and top of his warm house. I just dont know what to do, i cant seem to be able to get it right and i feed him tonight. I know they need good temps for digestion. We are very limited on money particularly seeing its almost Christmas. Please give me any helpful suggestions. Is it possible to put the heat pad on a lamp dimmer? I dont know but I'm sure someone out there does!!
 
You don't need the lamp or basking spot. Put the dimmer on the UTH and use that to adjust it to 85 degrees or so on the glass under the substrate.
 
Agreed. Ditch the lamp and just use the UTH with the dimmer. That's what I have on all my tanks, and it works fine.
 
You don't have to be in a rush to feed him- give him a week to settle in and you can get the temps sorted out. It's better to _not_ be in a rush to feed him. Also, if you can't get the temp on the warm side low enough, put a ceramic floor tile over the heater inside the viv. If you can't get a dimmer on it.

Nanci
 
I splurged and bought myself a thermostat instead of a dimmer, so I have no experience with those, but enough people on here seem to make it work and it's alot cheaper, but I believe the thermostat was worth every penny.

Before I got it, what I did was put a couple of paperback books under both ends of the tank to raise it up away from the UTH, not perfect and it still got a little warm and I had to pull the pad out, but it did make a difference.
 
Do what flagg and BeckyG said and I'll add, spend 8.88 at walmart and get a digital with a probe. It will be less work for you and you won't keep stressing out your animal every time you have to disturb him in his hides to adjust the thermometer.
 
Thanks guys. I currently have the dimmer hooked up to the UTH. This seems to be working ok for now but id like to purchase the zoomed repti-therm thermostat. Any have experiance with this does it work well?
 
I have three of those- they work ok, but take some dialing in. I wish I had probe thermometers to go with them- instead of having to dig the thermo out of the substrate to check- and Big Apple Herps has a double probe thermo pretty cheap which I would like to get. Right now I have the Flukers max/min thermo/humidistats. I like them a lot.

The Zoomed thermostat is nice because you can run two similar set ups on one thermostat- it has two plug-ins.

This place has good prices:

http://tinyurl.com/ykvsfp

Nanci
 
Actually, that link above has a fairly high online price for the ZooMed 500R. It's $10 cheaper at reptiledirect.com - 22.99 plus shipping. I've bought 3 there and have them now running 5 corn snake vivs. They work well for me, but a digital thermometer with a probe is essential. zip tie the 2 probe wires together and put them under the substrate over the UTH. Once they're calibrated, and using zoomed UTHs, mine keep it at a max 86 and min 81 degrees on the warm side. It doesn't keep a constant temperature like a proportional thermostat, but it also doesn't cost $129 or more.
 
Oops- I must have read the price for the rheostat or something- I was thinking it was $23...Sorry- good catch.

Nanci
 
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