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elament
Yearling
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05/06/2010 : 19:14:10
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Its so annoying to hear of a shop giving such bum advice. It just leads to sick animals and dispondant owners wondering what they did wrong. The advice you have been given here is spot on but to add to it my tip is when you get your stat and digital thermometer attach the probes of each together with rubber bands (dont use tape for reasons already stated) and have both probes together laying flat in direct contact with the surface of the heatmat. That way you know exactly what temp the mat is pumping out and can regulate the stat far more accurately. Dont trust the dial on the thermostat as quite often they lie. Also when you position your probes on the surface of the mat make sure you fix them there with sealant or weigh them down in place with something heavy as if the snake moves them it can lead to the mat overheating.
Hope that helps
cheers
steve |
1.1.0 Amel Corns Colin and Xena
1.0.0 Dog Talan
1.1.0 Cats Wotsit and Willow
1.0.0 Ferret Chaos
Location: Lowestoft Suffolk |
Edited by - elament on 05/06/2010 19:15:37 |
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sullysteve
Yearling
United Kingdom
507 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2010 : 20:53:23
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Originally posted by elament
Its so annoying to hear of a shop giving such bum advice. It just leads to sick animals and dispondant owners wondering what they did wrong. The advice you have been given here is spot on but to add to it my tip is when you get your stat and digital thermometer attach the probes of each together with rubber bands (dont use tape for reasons already stated) and have both probes together laying flat in direct contact with the surface of the heatmat. That way you know exactly what temp the mat is pumping out and can regulate the stat far more accurately. Dont trust the dial on the thermostat as quite often they lie. Also when you position your probes on the surface of the mat make sure you fix them there with sealant or weigh them down in place with something heavy as if the snake moves them it can lead to the mat overheating.
Hope that helps
cheers
steve
thats cool, so what should set the temp too??? |
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elament
Yearling
United Kingdom
942 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2010 : 21:00:57
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| Warm end around 27-30c (I have mine at 28) cold end around 21 ish (if you can in this heat lol) |
1.1.0 Amel Corns Colin and Xena
1.0.0 Dog Talan
1.1.0 Cats Wotsit and Willow
1.0.0 Ferret Chaos
Location: Lowestoft Suffolk |
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sullysteve
Yearling
United Kingdom
507 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2010 : 21:57:33
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| nice one ela!!! |
   
1.0 Corns Geoff (Ghost)
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa - Heidi
1.1 Kings - Pete (Florida) + Mamba (Cali Stripe)
1.2 Ball Pythons (Pastel + Bumblebee + Normal)
Location : Warrington, Cheshire |
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Sta~ple
qeeun speler
United Kingdom
6129 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2010 : 22:40:39
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Originally posted by sullysteve
DEALT!! just placed an order lol....thanks again....bloody snakes...costing me a fortune....i knew i should have bought a budgie!
Hahaha budgies are lovely, I miss mine although bthe make such a mess! And you can't have a normal telephone call XD
Once set-up costs are donw, snakes are very cheap to keep :) |
   
A very special super, duper thanks for K :3 |
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sullysteve
Yearling
United Kingdom
507 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2010 : 22:15:27
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Originally posted by matty18714
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Originally posted by Matt_Brooks
As for positioning if its in a viv then place it inside the viv under your substrate. Then tape the thermostat probe to the mat, this way it will pick up any little fluctuations and correct it. Also with the probe directly on the mat it will never go above the set temperature. If its in a faun or a RUB like mine then place the mat under the faun/RUB and then put the tthermostat probe inside in the warm end hide were the snake will spend most of its time. make sure its placed under the substrate again.
I would avoid using tape inside a viv, if the snake touches it it can cause alot of problems.
If your using a viv, use aquarium selant to stick the probe to the mat, if you using a plastic tub, tape the stat probe directly to the mat on the outside.
So what do i do with the probes?...i have ordered 2 digital thermometers
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DannyBrown91
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3070 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2010 : 23:05:16
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| I have my therm probes in the corns fauns under the hide and rockies weighed down with some stones if that helps. |
0.0.1 Ghost Corn - Casper
0.0.1 Diffused Corn - Reggie
0.0.1 Amel Corn - Candy A.K.A Baby
1.0 Commom BCI - Rocky
0.1 Japanese Akita - Sasha
Location: Liverpool |
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