Heating issues

[bcr229]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.