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Quick Question on Heating

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Ethrin

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My dad and I are getting a corn this weekend (hopefully) but I want to make sure our heating systems is safe. I've got a UTH but it only reaches 75 degrees, with the lamp it reaches 85 degrees. Will it effect the snake badly to go between the two when I turn off the light at night? I just want to play it safe. Thanks
 
A night temp of 75 is OKay...between 70-88 is ideal according the corn snake manual, which is referenced a lot in these forums. I usually drop my temps to 75/70 (Hot side/Cold side) at night and have had no ill effect. Sometimes my cold side will drop to 65 and Dori still stays over there eventhough she has a hide on each side of the viv.

~Kwan
 
Ethrin said:
My dad and I are getting a corn this weekend (hopefully) but I want to make sure our heating systems is safe. I've got a UTH but it only reaches 75 degrees, with the lamp it reaches 85 degrees. Will it effect the snake badly to go between the two when I turn off the light at night? I just want to play it safe. Thanks
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Are you sure that with the UTH it's only hitting 75? The ambient air temp might be 75, but I have a hard time believing that the substrate on top of the UTH is at 75. Something to check out.....
 
I'm curious, but what temps DO the UTH's reach? All I can seem to find online is that they operate at (some say 10, some say 20) degrees above room temperature, but what is standard room temperature... 68? Surely they run hotter than 78-88 degrees...? Mine reads about 78-82 (depending on the room temps) with the day light off, but I'm using a cheap reptile thermometer too, and it certainly feels warmer to the touch...

I have an exo-terra small uth that runs on 8 watts. (for example)
 
Spirit said:
I'm curious, but what temps DO the UTH's reach? All I can seem to find online is that they operate at (some say 10, some say 20) degrees above room temperature, but what is standard room temperature... 68? Surely they run hotter than 78-88 degrees...? Mine reads about 78-82 (depending on the room temps) with the day light off, but I'm using a cheap reptile thermometer too, and it certainly feels warmer to the touch...

I have an exo-terra small uth that runs on 8 watts. (for example)
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Put it this way. I've got a UTH for my ball pythons and out of curiousity I stuck a regular thermometer into the substrate and it came back with a reading over over 105, each time I did it. Now granted that was a few inches deep into the substrate, but still.
 
My UTH would reach 110 under the hot side hide and on top the substrate, if I did not have it toned down with the zoo med temp control thing. I keep the digital thermometer under the hide on the hot side and it reads 80-85 depending on the temps in the house. We have the house go down to 65 when we are gone. The ambient air is usually 70-75.

Jean
 
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