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Too Cold! (Please help)

Isis

Isis

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I have a 20 gallon aquarium for my cornsnake right now. There is a heating pad on one end, and a lamp in the middle. When I have both turned on in the day, the temp. only reaches a high of 73 degrees! I've been told this is too cold, and may be why my little guy isn't eating. I've tried everything to make it warmer, but I guess that's as warm as it gets.

Where I live is quite cold (we already have snow) and at night my room grows quite chilly, and the temp drops quite a bit, even with the heating pad on. Is this dangerous for my snake?

What could I do to make it warmer?

Thanks
 
You could try a higher wattage lightbulb diring the day, and perhaps a more powerful (be careful though) heating pad or even maybe a ceramic heater for the night time.

JCD
 
If I were you, I would get a much smaller enclosure to get you through the winter while the snake is so small. If you get an inexpensive good escape proof cage, just a bit larger than a shoe box, then I'm sure the heating pad you have would do a great job. And the snake will be a lot warmer. Then after it has started feeding and growing well, you could transfer it back to the larger tank.
Just my opinion.
Mark
 
Hey

What you could do i have a 40w bulb in with no termostate and tht should keep it to about 85F or you coul gte a 100w bulb in and have a termostate attatched to it.
Hope this helps

Cheers

Alex
 
Er...if there's snow already, even a 75W may be a touch little. Mine's just keeping it at around 80-82, and the temperature outside is 8 *C in the day time.
The lamp should be more towards the warm side, I believe.

40W is way too cold if you're somewhere up here, so go for something higher. You can always just put the warmer one in on really cold days and nights, while having a less powerful one on normally...
 
Thanks for the info!

A friend told me that I could try putting tinfoil around the lid of the tank, and that insulates it.

I tried that, and the temp went up to 83!

Success. I think?
 
Lol, It sounds like sucess.

BTW wha I use on one of my tanks to insulate it is cork tiles (they look nice). You can also use Polostirin.

Thanks

Alex
 
Isis.. I dont think 73` is too cold. i have 2 corns in an unheated loft conv. the temp is now around 60` and gets cooler but both still feed well thruout winter as long as the heat pads are left on.
 
i use a 40watt bulb for the summer and a 60watt for the winter...
this is for a 3foot glass tank with 7 watt UTH , housing a 30" snake.
Right now i`m on the 40 watt bulb still, hot end temps reaching about 75 daytime, 85 evening (central heating goes on), 60-odd at night
 
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