I think I'm done.

[phenyx]

I think I'm done asking questions on the website. I can't handle the conflicting, contradictory information that makes no reasonable sense.

Take my recent thermostat issues. Where do I put the thermostat probe? Answers I got: A) taped to the heat pad, B) sandwiched between the heat pad and the bottom of the glass, C) under the substrate on the glass inside the viv. I even spent $70 and bought new thermostats for both my vivs so that I could have better streamlined probes that would facilitate any of these three.

I read that by taping the probe to the pad I should have hot spot temperatures within just a few degrees of the thermostat set temperature. WRONG. My thermostat is set to 90 degrees. The thermostat probe is reading 90 degrees on the bottom of the pad. After 6 hours, my hot spot temp measured 80 degrees and 15 hours, my hot spot temperature is *still* reading 80 degrees via IR temp gun measuring the surface of the substrate.

Now someone's asking me if I'm measuring the surface or the substrate? What in the name of BACON does that even mean? I'm measuring the surface OF the substrate. What other surface would I be measuring? The glass on top of the pad inside the viv? Why would I measure that? My snake doesn't lie on the glass, he lies on the surface of the substrate!!!!!

Do I measure the glass under the substrate or the top of the substrate? Cue long, long, long, never ending debate in which no one ever ever agrees and I still don't know what I'm doing.

if these temperatures are so freakin' all fired *critical* why is there no consensus? Why is there no consistency? Why isn't there one simple standard of probe placement and hot spot measuring location that any idiot can understand?

Every time I think I'm doing something right, someone pops up and tells me I'm doing it wrong, I need to buy still more equipment. I own 4 thermostats now, for 2 herps and I still can't get any of this right.

And don't even get me started on the freakin' never ending feeding schedule debate. I still don't know how much and how often I'm actually suppose feed my snakes. And if any of my snakes ever regurge again, I certainly won't mention it here.

At this point I'm read rehome all my herps and give up on this because I just can't take the stress of never knowing what the hell I'm doing and never getting anything right.


I came here for information. All I'm getting is major stress and anxiety. You want to know why you get noobs who ask a question and then never come back? This is why.