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06-19-13, 01:55 PM
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Re: Heating issues
You need to get the temp on the hot end up to 91-95f in whatever way is easiest for you, and if you dont already have a theermostat you need one as soon as possible.
I would also expect some flak for calling this a rescue when you arent providing ideal conditions "for a few weeks"
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06-19-13, 01:58 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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Originally Posted by Lankyrob
You need to get the temp on the hot end up to 91-95f in whatever way is easiest for you, and if you dont already have a theermostat you need one as soon as possible.
I would also expect some flak for calling this a rescue when you arent providing ideal conditions "for a few weeks"
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Well, the lady I got her from was letting it free roam her house. She had a lot of stuck on shed when I got her.
"flak for calling it a rescue". What is this, 4chan?
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06-19-13, 01:59 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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Originally Posted by DClark747
Well, the lady I got her from was letting it free roam her house. She had a lot of stuck on shed when I got her.
"flak for calling it a rescue". What is this, 4chan?
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Hey 4chan is the sh*t don't dis 4chan dawg 
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06-19-13, 03:26 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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Well, the lady I got her from was letting it free roam her house.
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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.
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06-19-13, 04:25 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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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.
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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
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06-19-13, 04:36 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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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.
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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
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06-19-13, 04:58 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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?
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06-20-13, 03:27 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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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?
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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
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06-20-13, 05:07 PM
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Re: Heating issues
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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
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Good. so ill you need to do is get a thermostat . . . like NOW.
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