Heating issues - Page 2

DClark747 · 06-19-13, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MBK Boy

I wouldn't buy anything right yet (other then a thermostat).

Wait till you get home tonight, take a couple pic of the outside and inside and post them here.

Maybe we can see something that is a easy fix.

Ehhh, may be until tomorrow that I get a pic up, just keep an eye out for this thread. When both my girlfriend and I get off of work we're going out for dinner and a date, and I probably won't get much done tonight.

bcr229 · 06-19-13, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by DClark747

Well, the lady I got her from was letting it free roam her house.

Great googly-moogly if I did that mine would all disappear.

How are you measuring the temperatures? Those little round thermometers are worthless. Get an IR thermometer so you know what the temperature is on the surface of the tub. You could have an ambient in the low-mid 80's and the hot spot high enough to burn your snake with an unregulated UTH.

DClark747 · 06-19-13, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Great googly-moogly if I did that mine would all disappear.

How are you measuring the temperatures? Those little round thermometers are worthless. Get an IR thermometer so you know what the temperature is on the surface of the tub. You could have an ambient in the low-mid 80's and the hot spot high enough to burn your snake with an unregulated UTH.

This is what I'm using. It isn't an IR, but I've read/been told good things about them. Anyone have any experience with them?

Acurite Digital Humidity & Temperature Monitor 00325

DClark747 · 06-19-13, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcr229

Great googly-moogly if I did that mine would all disappear.

How are you measuring the temperatures? Those little round thermometers are worthless. Get an IR thermometer so you know what the temperature is on the surface of the tub. You could have an ambient in the low-mid 80's and the hot spot high enough to burn your snake with an unregulated UTH.

Although, I do regular daily tests in which I put the thermometer in several different locations in my tub, as well as putting it directly on the UTH. Looks like the highest my UTH gets is in the mid-90's

Mikoh4792 · 06-19-13, 04:58 PM

If I let any of my snakes free roam the house for a day I would lose every one of them. How did this not happen to her?

DClark747 · 06-20-13, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by mikoh4792

If I let any of my snakes free roam the house for a day I would lose every one of them. How did this not happen to her?

I wasn't living with her, so I'm not entirely sure and I didn't ask.

Update, though. The house I live in is quite a bit older, so al of the outlets and wiring isn't so great. Where I had my UTH plugged in at would just stop working randomly. Where I've got it at now seems to be working pretty well. To test it out, I plugged it in and left it on the counter overnight with the thermometer on it. When I checked back it was at 102F

Concept9 · 06-20-13, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DClark747

I wasn't living with her, so I'm not entirely sure and I didn't ask.

Update, though. The house I live in is quite a bit older, so al of the outlets and wiring isn't so great. Where I had my UTH plugged in at would just stop working randomly. Where I've got it at now seems to be working pretty well. To test it out, I plugged it in and left it on the counter overnight with the thermometer on it. When I checked back it was at 102F

Good. so ill you need to do is get a thermostat . . . like NOW.

Lupinus · 06-20-13, 06:23 PM

With electrical like that heating may eventually prove to not be a problem

jarich · 06-21-13, 08:42 AM

The problem with getting another light is that you will be greatly increasing the heat, and but also reducing the humidity. What size UTH are you using? Id start with the new thermostat first and see if you can just adjust the higher temperatures that way. As said above, the UTH should be able to do the job with the right controls.