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i am soooooo soooo pissed!!! HELP!

sXe_corn_sXe

sXe_corn_sXe

R.I.P. ashes
arrrrggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK! i have a corn snake that is supposed to be here tomorrow! And i can NOT find a thermomiter that works, i have gotten two digital thermomators, and neaither one work worth crap!!! OK, i just bought another digital therm and it reads my house temp at 73.6 F.
I put the therm on my uth to see how hot it is at the full power, and the therm just keeps on dropping(69.7) !!! it is making me sooooooooooo mad!!! because i cant get a therm that works, please help, because i dont think i am even going to use any heat untill i know that it wont be to hot!

HELP!!!
:cry: :shrugs:
and yes i have pressed clear and even took the battery out and back in and it still sucks!!!
 
Is it a household model? Does it have a temp probe connected to a wire and inside/outside modes?
 
How long have you had the heat pad on

I have had some that have seemed to take an inordinate amount of time to warm up. Does it feel warm/cold/or room temp to the touch?
 
ricorns said:
I have had some that have seemed to take an inordinate amount of time to warm up. Does it feel warm/cold/or room temp to the touch?
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i have had it on like 45 mins and it feels very warm to the touch.
 
NO, you really need to get a thermometer that works! Personally I have never had a problem with any of the indoor/outdoor thermometers. Are you certain you are looking at farenheit and not celcius? Also make sure you have new batteries, possibly that would throw your reading off?

Just another thought for you, I would suggest you buy Kathy Love's book 'The Corn Snake Manual'. You can obtain this from a variety of sources and it will answer most of your questions for you! It's an excellent resource that even experienced keepers often refer back to for reference!

Quigs
 
well, i havnt been so pissed for a long time!!! this is the second one i have had and neather one of them work!!! i really wish i could find a therm that works, so what the heck am i supposed to do??? it is a BAND NEW battery and i dont know why it wont work. it is an indoor/ outdoor therm, i have it on F and on indoor, it has a long coord with a probe, and i am screwed.
 
I've solved your problem!

sXe_corn_sXe said:
it is an indoor/ outdoor therm, i have it on F and on indoor, it has a long coord with a probe, and i am screwed.
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Set it Outdoor. The probe is meant to run outside and give you outdoor readings. :) The Inside setting is recording the temp at the location of the unit itself. That should fix your problem.....

TAAA-DAAA!!!!!!!!!! :D
 
I use a regular suction type thermometer and just put the end so that it's touching the substrate. It's non-digital, just the red liquid type. I got it at Home Depot and the suctions keep it off the side of the viv so that it isn't reading the glass temperature. It seems to be pretty accurate.
 
CAV said:
Set it Outdoor. The probe is meant to run outside and give you outdoor readings. :) The Inside setting is recording the temp at the location of the unit itself. That should fix your problem.....

TAAA-DAAA!!!!!!!!!! :D
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hmmm, i really am wondering why it doesnt say that on the directions.

but thanks, i think that might be the prob.
 
I think what CAV meant was...

Thingymerbobber!

He's good with big words but not so hot with popular American slang and the spellings there of.

Hope this clears the confusion.

Regards,
Quigs
 
my god why is it so hard for others to heat the viv? Just put a heatpad on under the tank and no heat on the cold side. Your snake will do the rest, if its to hot then it will move to a cooler spot. Just have good bedding like "eco-earth grounded cocunut fiber". Just add water and squeeze out remanding moisture. I live in Canada and you know how cold it gets here, and how warm it gets here too. A UTH is all you need for any corn snake.

Forget the thermomators, For all my snake and, their is alot. I never have used one dont think I will either. Corn snakes are very easy to care for, they will survive very happly with the bare nessesities. Yes if it feels warm to you sXe_corn_sXe then its fine no worries.

I might get flack from this but its what I know. No one can tell me different.
Hope this helps.
 
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