Heating problems

[Weather1]

The warm end of my enclosure hovers around 85. However the cold end is only 62.

The thermometers are lying on the substrate. I have an UTH and a heat lamp. 27 gallon = 30" long

I keep corn snakes.

Any suggestions on how to warm up the cool end a bit?

Or is 62 ok for the cool end

Thanks for the advice

[nuno]

Are you using a digital thermostat with a probe to measure the temps? maby try turning up the heat in the room your tank is in.

[stormyva]

I am with Nuno on this one... what kind of thermometers are you using?

That seems like an awful drastic temp gradient for such a small enlcosure.

[Jeff_Favelle]

62F on the cold end is too cold for corns. 70-75F is more like it. Gonna have to try and get the temp. up my friend.

[escm]

I just recently put together a setup for my first ball (just bought him on friday, spent the week before setting up the tank)...i had some trouble during the setup phase with overall temps heres how I ended up setting everything up:

thermostat+uth with temp. probe located directly above uth on substrate.

75watt Infrared heat bulb hooked to a dimmer positioned about 6 inches above the tank in the middle, slightly angled towards hot side.

100watt incandesant about 12 inches above the tank on the hot side.

the infrared stays on all the time. I have it dimmed down quite a bit but it keeps the overall temps around 80.

during the day the 100watt raises the hot side to about 89 (my snake seems to like it a bit cooler than most bp sites recommend) and because it is so high above the tank it does not raise the cool side temp up at all (it stays at about 79-80 due to the infrared).

The thermostat is set to run at about 88-89 so all day it does not come on.

at night the 100watt is off, hot side temps drop and the uth keeps a localized hot spot of about 88-89 while the cool side drop to about 76-77 due to the drop in room temp. the infrared ensures things do not go below 75 (thats the lowest ive seen it and that was when my apartment thermostat was set at 68-69 which is really cold).

hopefully this will give you some ideas...i think the key is the infrared lamp. It keeps the ambient temp up right where my snake likes it and I can adjust it with a fair degree of precision via the dimmer.

[Weather1]

Thanks everyone.

I have raised the temp on the cold end to 73 and the hot end is sitting around 80-88

He seem to be happy and active. He also shed last night. all in one nic eong piece. :w

[stormyva]

Congrats on the temps and the shed. It's always great too a great shed