I know, I know heating questions are asked all the time.
So I have an UTH and I have Reptile Prime coconut fiber substrate which appears great and unlike other coconut options it isnt dusty at all and I would have a hard time thinking my little guys nose would get all plugged up or something burrowing..which he loves doing in the stuff.
Anyway, it seems to be more dense than Aspen because the recommended 2-3 inches even if kept at 2 inches requires my heating pad to reach 98-108 degrees for my probe (at surface inside warm hide) to sit at 83-84 degrees controlled by my thermostat. I also have a thermometer which measures the temp at the glass above the pad and ambient temp where the display is...so I can see room temp (for estimating cool side) and the glass temp.
My little guy usually avoids burrowing and sitting right above the mat since it is obviously too hot...but he just ate his first meal with me (the breeder fed him a lot since he is 5.5 months old and I just got him) and he is curled up against the glass right beside the UTH's edge...now I bet the glass is still at least in the 90s slightly off the mat...
Will he hurt himself? Or interfere with digestion? If I have to I will skim off some substrate and make it thinner and run the UTH cooler as a result...but with less substrate I will feel bad he cant burrow as well since he loves to it appears. He has several established tunnels he uses.
Thoughts?
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So I have an UTH and I have Reptile Prime coconut fiber substrate which appears great and unlike other coconut options it isnt dusty at all and I would have a hard time thinking my little guys nose would get all plugged up or something burrowing..which he loves doing in the stuff.
Anyway, it seems to be more dense than Aspen because the recommended 2-3 inches even if kept at 2 inches requires my heating pad to reach 98-108 degrees for my probe (at surface inside warm hide) to sit at 83-84 degrees controlled by my thermostat. I also have a thermometer which measures the temp at the glass above the pad and ambient temp where the display is...so I can see room temp (for estimating cool side) and the glass temp.
My little guy usually avoids burrowing and sitting right above the mat since it is obviously too hot...but he just ate his first meal with me (the breeder fed him a lot since he is 5.5 months old and I just got him) and he is curled up against the glass right beside the UTH's edge...now I bet the glass is still at least in the 90s slightly off the mat...
Will he hurt himself? Or interfere with digestion? If I have to I will skim off some substrate and make it thinner and run the UTH cooler as a result...but with less substrate I will feel bad he cant burrow as well since he loves to it appears. He has several established tunnels he uses.
Thoughts?
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