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CRB Setup confirmation
I've been getting a small enclosure ready for a baby CRB, wondered if i can run things by everyone before she arrives, this is my first Rainbow! the enclosure has been stable for a month now - except the cool end, which has bumped up a few degrees since the humidity and temps here in the uk have gone up
Starting out with a small 50x25x25cm glass tank, aluminium sealed top
Substrate - 2cm Coir and 2cm of orchid bark on top, with sum sphag mixed in
3 hides:
2 on cool side, one dry and one with sphag, ~22-24C, no hope of anything cooler here in summer time
1 on warm side with spag, ~26-28C (inside air temp)
Heating is a single 15W heat matt on one side of the enclosure, with a thermostat set to cut off the heat at 29C on the hot side, probe is inside the substrate - 30C is the highest substrate tempreture i've measured over that time (IR gun), thats lower down in the substrate, surface tends to be ~26-28C - should i push that up a bit? wondering if i should set the thermostat to 32C so the surface of the substrate gets closer to 30C - any thoughts?
Humidity is stable at 80%, sphag is swapped over with fresh damp load if it dips below that - which has only done once so far
Picking her up at the end of next week, shes going to spend the first week in a plastic tub while i check her over, so still got another 2 weeks to make tweeks if anyone has suggestions!
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