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Temp ok?

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Larkspeed

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I think I am in the safe zone now but I just want to double check.

I cannot afford to buy a matstat at the moment so I went with one of these:

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it only cost 1.50 Euro and after playing around I have managed to get the temp stable at 31 - 32.2 C

This is registered by a digital thermometer and the probe is taped to the glass floor of the viv, directly above the heat mat and under the substrate.

As near as I can tell this temp should be safe but it is in the high end of the safe zone.

even a small adjustment on the dimmer causes it to drop all the way down to 22c so I must be very close to the lower limit of the dimmer.
 
That's a little bit warmish. If you could figure out how to get that thing to give you 29 or 30, that would be perfect.
 
wstphal said:
That's a little bit warmish. If you could figure out how to get that thing to give you 29 or 30, that would be perfect.
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i keep trying but every time I get it to go down to 29 it eventualy climbs back up to 32 again.

I will eventualy be building my own viv and have already planned out a panel mount dual zone thermometer and a proper set it and forget it thermostat so this is really only a temporary solution.
 
Can you get some tiles, like ceramic/clay floor tiles, and put them on the hot spot then put the bedding on top of that? That would make the hottest surface your cornsnake could reach a degree or so cooler. Slates from a slate roof would work. A flat piece of rock would work. A brick would probably work fine too.

Good to know you are already planning to build a custom viv & that these issues are temporary, and even better to see someone actually CHECKING their temperatures.
 
wstphal said:
Good to know you are already planning to build a custom viv & that these issues are temporary, and even better to see someone actually CHECKING their temperatures.
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Checking temps is my new hobby. I thought everyone else was as OCD as me. Was I wrong? :D
 
Karoni said:
Checking temps is my new hobby. I thought everyone else was as OCD as me. Was I wrong? :D
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No, not everyone is, and that can have bad outcomes for the snake(s). So I always compliment people who are making sure the temps are correct. I may not know a lot yet, but I do know that too hot or too cold is bad for them, and since they can't leave their vivs to find a better temperature, we have to provide them with good temperatures INSIDE the viv, and that requires a certain amoung of being OCD.
 
I am going completely nuts about the temps in my snakes viv at the current time. for some reason my dimmer wont jump up past 75 and if it does it goes to 95 and then back to 75 .. I think I need a new dimmer :p what do you guys think?
 
I am going completely nuts about the temps in my snakes viv at the current time. for some reason my dimmer wont jump up past 75 and if it does it goes to 95 and then back to 75 .. I think I need a new dimmer :p what do you guys think?
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Sounds like the dimmer and heat source aren't working together properly. What sort of heater and dimmer are you using?
 
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