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Too cold?

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The cold side of my viv is staying around 68-69F and whatever i do i can't seem to raise the temp. The warm side is staying around 83-87F. I put it down to being winter and temps have been around -4 for the past week or 2. I just wanted to know if its okay for the temps to be around this?. If not any suggestions on how to up it?
 
I think as long as there is a warm side for your snake to escape to, it should be fine. I had the same issue as you, but I went out a bought a space heater that has a built-in thermostat. But I'm just a little paranoid when it comes to my snakes. xD
 
I think it should be fine how it is. My corns have always been fine with their cool side temps in the 60's during the winter.
 
I have also had that problem and my tanks all have screen tops, so what I did was get a piece of cardboard and cut it to the width of the top and about 4 inches shy of the length of the top and then I placed it on the screen over the cool end. This kept more of the heat in around the middle and cooler end but allowed air flow and circulation through the warm end, ensuring the hot end not to over heat. I have had not trouble with the temps being so dramatically different now.

I have also heard of people wrapping a towel around their tank but I did not like that idea, I did not think it would look nice. A flat piece of plain cardboard is much nicer almost unnoticable.
 
Yea i have one of them thermostat controlled convection heaters that i turn on every now and then but as i have asthma i only really turn it on when the room gets a bit colder.
 
jlindp said:
I think as long as there is a warm side for your snake to escape to, it should be fine. I had the same issue as you, but I went out a bought a space heater that has a built-in thermostat. But I'm just a little paranoid when it comes to my snakes. xD
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Just be careful with those built in thermostats on space heaters. If they should ever fail, and eventually one will, your whole collection can be cooked. It happened to me in 1992.
I still use an oil filled electric heater with a built in thermostat,..However I have that plugged into a Johnson A419 controller, as a secondary back up should the thermostat on the heater fail. Also the Johnson controller does a much better job maintaining the 82 degree temp I keep the room at.
Reptile Basics sells these units already prewired to a small power strip just plug it in and set your temps. Unlike the Helix Db-1000 and other similar controllers The Johnson handles the 1500 watts that a space heater uses.
For only $80.00 it sure will let you sleep better. :cheers:
 
Man that must have been terrible to find your collection cooked!! I am sorry to hear that but thanks for telling us as I have been thinking about possibly putting all of my snakes in one room and just heating the room.
 
Asbit said:
Man that must have been terrible to find your collection cooked!! I am sorry to hear that but thanks for telling us as I have been thinking about possibly putting all of my snakes in one room and just heating the room.
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Definately the way I have done it for years. Just stay away from ceramic heaters as their thermostats are unreliable and the fans tend to burn out. I have had great results from the oil filled electric heaters, just make sure you have a back up thermostat, again, I like the Johnson personally. If you feel the need to circulate the air, just use a seperate small fan to do so.
Yes It was terrible...I came home from work one day,...opened the door to my snake room and it was like opening the oven.. Only had corns back then.. but I did have my newly "prized" ( remember it is almost 18 years ago,lol!) Snow Corn....I have used a back up thermostat since.:cheers:
 
Old_School said:
Just be careful with those built in thermostats on space heaters. If they should ever fail, and eventually one will, your whole collection can be cooked. It happened to me in 1992.
I still use an oil filled electric heater with a built in thermostat,..However I have that plugged into a Johnson A419 controller, as a secondary back up should the thermostat on the heater fail. Also the Johnson controller does a much better job maintaining the 82 degree temp I keep the room at.
Reptile Basics sells these units already prewired to a small power strip just plug it in and set your temps. Unlike the Helix Db-1000 and other similar controllers The Johnson handles the 1500 watts that a space heater uses.
For only $80.00 it sure will let you sleep better. :cheers:
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Thank you for letting me know and sorry to hear of your loss. The space heater is only used to heat the room to 75 degrees and is connected to a surge protector-type device that will shut it off completely if it exceeds a certain wattage, i.e. if the heater's thermostat fails and it heats all the way up. It's also only on when the house heater isn't on, which is only for a few hours every day.
 
As long as there's a warm spot in the tank for the snake to move to if it wants, then you're fine. Your warm end temps sound good. I think your guys will be fine.
 
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