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HELP !TANK IS 75 DEGREES IN DAYTIME!!!

If you don't get the rheostat tonight, try going to Lowe's or Home Depot and buying a "plug in lamp dimmer." It can be used just like a rheostat and will generally cost half what a reptile rheostat will cost... maybe $9 or $10 at Home Depot.
 
Hey so I was gone cause I went out to the store and bought the rhetrostat and the temp gauge from walmart. SO MANY THANKS now i just need to get something to warm myself up lol. i put the temp gauge into the the substrate, not on the wall, not on the other side of the glass from the UTH and the sticky thingy thing stil has the paper on just in case i placed it in the wrong spot. I'm going to assume that the temp at the top of the gauge is the "in" is the tank temp and the temp at the bottom is outside of the tank. but if thats the case then i need a UTH for myself !
 
assuming you got an indoor/outdoor thermometer...if you used it for it's actual purpose you would string the probe outside of your house to get the outside temperatures. So the one that is labeled "out" is the probe temperature...and the one labeled "in" is the temperature taken from the unit itself.
 
I noticed that you have a screen top on your viv. I also have screen topped vivs. We have been using heat lamps (from above) as our only form of heat until just recently. So long as the screen material is metal, you can put your lamp directly on the screen top with out a fire hazard...I have done this with all of mine.

Then what I have done to keep temps up, is to use cardboard on the top to keep as much heat in as possible and keep temps stable. To get it set up I turn my lamp off and then trace it on my cardboard. I cut out the area I traced, but just slightly larger. Therefor keeping the cardboard from touching the lamp when it heats up.

All of our tanks have been heated this way for the last two years, with no problems and it has kept temps very stable.

In having said this, yes a UTH and thermostat/rheostat should always be used as corns need belly heat to digest and thermoregulate. We started out with Garter snakes and that is part of why we did not have UTH's. The other reason we did not have them until recently was also because i knew that UTH's were well known for overheating and/or failing which can cause severe burns. What I did not know at the time was that they could be used with thermostats/rheostats to make them safe to use.
 
THank you everyone for your help and assitance i'm not sure why the temp keeps dropping but it def stopped when people contributed to this thread. Currently October ( my opal corn), is buried underneath the substrate right over the UTH. I have the probe buried away from walls of the tank but directly in the substrate and over the UTH. currently it reads 91.2 ( out) and 76.1 for the ( in).
 
What is the huge worry right now? 75 degrees isnt going to harm the snake at all.

Just turn down your AC a bit and warm up your house. But you really have nothing to worry about. If you are comfortable then so is your snake, unless you like it really Frigid.

I might be more worried that your thermometer is off and under reading the temps. It might be warmer than you think.

What you really need is not a digital thermometer but a infrared one.

Go to either Proexotic.com or tempgun.com and get the PE-1 for 25 bucks.. its well worth the price.
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well the problem is with my house its a split level and the tank must stay in my room ( the basement) cause my family has a lot of guest that come over and only the ones that know my dad or grew up in the country likes snakes. So my family lives upstairs and i live downstairs so when its already extra cold downstairs so when they turn on the AC to feel cool upstairs it feels 2x cold downstairs. the only time it does warm up downstairs is during the weekends which is really odd. i'll be going to school a the end of august where the temps are even more radical since its off of st. mary's river.


so far i just have the probe of the thermostat from walmart in the middle of the substrate not touching the glass or on the surface. it seems to read okay with the inside tank temp at 76 and the outside at 90 ( i think thats from the UTH)
 
So I have semi-decent newss

1) will be paid in 3 weeks and since I paid off my tution, I don't have to pay anything til school starts ( books etc...) so i'm going to get anything else my opal will need!

2) The rhetostat worked great last night!!!! he actually pooped !!! ( cause i was in the middle of switching him from 1 pink last wedensday 2 two this past sunday). i'm not sure if that was the poo from wednesday or sunday though...but anywhoos i'm going to switch him to peach fuzzies or fuzzies in 2 weeks:bird:

3) Since my parents refused to turn thed AC down cause they were hot upstairs, i can now use my new equipment to compensate for my room being cold.flames:

When I get home I'm going to check up on his temps to make sure he wasn't boiling. I think when I left the house the probe was inside of the substrate and but above the UTH and read to be 87.
 
The probe should be directly on top of the glass--the closest to the heater the corn can get. The temps should be around 85*F... All of mine do well at around 83 (I'm a bit paranoid about my crappy thermostats malfunctioning!).

If temperatures fluctuate a lot in your room, you would be well off to get a thermostat rather than a rheostat. Rheostats keep the device going at a constant power output, so it's going to fluctuate right along with the temperatures in your room. You can get a crappy on/off one that does the job from Petsmart.com for $30 last I checked, or, if you have the money, a better one... Ranging from Ranco for $50 to Herpstat for $100.

That's just my two cents on what you've done so far. Good job getting those temps back on track! =)
 
When I got back home yesterday I placed the probe onto the bottom glass of the tank on the other side of the UTH. It read to be 95 this morning before i left for work. I'm guessing that the substrate won't be that hot, but I am going to clean the tank out next wednesday or sunday and i will place a couple of pieces of newspaper underneath the substrate to ensure that he does not burn himself. unles you think he's fine without it?
 
He can crawl under the newspaper, too. Leave it as it is, just leave the thermometer probe on the glass and adjust the rheostat accordingly. It shouldn't be more than 85*F right on the glass. Air temperatures are fairly irrelevant with corn snakes; your main concern is making sure he won't burn himself.
 
A little off topic, but I went to St.Mary's! It gets super hot and muggy down there, and some of the dorms don't have AC, which is something to be aware of if you're planning on taking summer classes.
 
O YEAH!!!!! I'm a senior now and I'm going to live on the townhouse greens ( Homer) so i'll have AC. So i'm right next to the pond and the river. Right now i'm at home, what I noticed about being down there is that when its hot ITS REALLY HOT and when its cold ITS Frigid. I'm trying to move in 4 days early so i can feed him on his regular feeding day, which would b 4 days away. and actually my corn just went into "pink" today which is equivalent to blue since he's an Opal
 
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