Temps changing at night

[Lichjen]

Ok, this is my first "winter" (if you want to call it that) with reptiles

Our rooms get hot at night and need the a/c on (put it at 73) - but then it does drop below - I think over night (only husband knows)

When I got up around 9 - the cold side of Nimue's enclosure was 68 (she was on the other side)

We are in a moble home - so heating sucks

any recommendations?

[Mikoh4792]

What is the ambient temperature inside the house when Nimue's cold side is 68?

What enclosure are you housing her in? Does it have a screen top?

What heat sources. Any thermostats?

[slowhite03]

They'll be fine, does it not get 68 in the wild? Unless it gets around freezing tempatures, your snake will be fine.

[Lichjen]

Inside our home used to get to 60* but it hasn't gotten that temp outside yet -it's 70ish in the home but you can feel it from the floor (on cool mornings the floor is freezing - she's 3 feet off the floor .

Especially with the Albino coming I want to make sure they will all be healthy - (my girl went right to her warm side this morning so she's not stupid.

Not good heatiing in this room (house) stinks - year round

[muffiewrites]

For my kidlet's beardie, we got a small, electric heater to raise the ambient temperature in my kid's room because it would drop down too much once it went below freezing. We picked the heater up at a major discount retailer for less than 20 bucks. It shut itself off when the ambient temperature went above whatever we set it to. I can't remember which one we got. Our house at the time was old enough to have been insulated with newspapers to start with, so this kind of thing was a major fire hazard. We had to pick the right one and then set up correctly. It didn't raise our electric bill in a way we noticed. The other thing that really helps is putting plastic over the windows to seal the drafts out.

I put an undertank heater on my snakes cage and thoroughly disliked it. He's got a bioactive substrate and it still got too warm to the touch. I don't recommend a heating element that the animal can hurt itself on.

[Austin659]

This is also my first winter with a cold blooded pet. I did the same thing the first morning I woke up and saw a 8f temperature drop, run online searching to see if I needed to do something about it. Its no big deal as long as your snake is not exposed to that for an extended period of time, from what I have seen so far, I am actually looking into something I read about dropping the temp on both sides during the night by 5f to help keep a more natural day and night simulation for my snake in its enclosure. As of now though I just cover the top of the cage at night with a lightweight cotton scarf I stole from my wife and bought a tiny little 25w heat lamp to go along with my under tank heater, keeps the temperature just right in a 65 degree room.

[Mikoh4792]

What kind of boa is your red-tailed boa?

[slowhite03]

I don't want to come off as rude but your snake will be fine. As long as he has a warm side to go to. My current temps are about 64 when I wake up and my snakes are in the warm side where it's warm. Once the "sun" turns on, they either stay there or go to the cool side where it's cooler. They will go where they're comfortable. Like I said before, as long as its not freezing, they'll be fine.

[Lichjen]

Originally Posted by Mikoh4792

What kind of boa is your red-tailed boa?

One is albino (arriving soon) and one is a regular