Help: Thermostat Probe - how to keep in place?

MoreliAddict · 03-28-12, 07:30 AM

Hi all

Some of you have probably answered this question before, but help me out for the sake of

!

I use a thermostat made by Zilla:

In a Boaphile enclosure:

I use a RHP in the back right corner (on the ceiling) with a UTH below that(under the enclosure), aspen as a substrate.

*I need help keeping the probe in place, the thermostat came with a suction cup, but it doesn't work with the PVC (i don't think). I understand that I should be avoiding tape (I'm tempted to use gorilla tape but won't), so how should i keep it in place??

*I don't want to keep the probe directly on the floor, because I don't want it to be close enough to the UTH to throw off the temps.

Let me know your suggestions, thanks in advance!

Bradyloach · 03-28-12, 07:35 AM

Take a thumb tack and stick it through the suction cup into the PVC

MoreliAddict · 03-28-12, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Bradyloach

Take a thumb tack and stick it through the suction cup into the PVC

Spot's a pretty big climber, I'd be afraid to do that because I could see him trying to climb on the thumb tack, and pulling it off of the PVC.

Bradyloach · 03-28-12, 07:43 AM

Hmm then if you want it to be a permenat solution I would recomend taking a drill and screwing a screw through it all the way. You can even wrap the extra around the unit itself and this would come undone or harm your snake!

KORBIN5895 · 03-28-12, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Bradyloach

Take a thumb tack and stick it through the suction cup into the PVC

The tack seems like a bad idea.

@ op

Screw a piece a piece of 2" sq plywood to keep it off the floor. Then attach your probe to the plywood.

Bradyloach · 03-28-12, 07:56 AM

Or crazy glue it! But is that a hazard to snakes? It dries fast?

MoreliAddict · 03-28-12, 07:57 AM

idea: Hot glue the probe suction cup to the top of one of those hides, and put that water dish on top of the hide as well to hold it in place.

Thoughts?

Bradyloach · 03-28-12, 07:58 AM

Hmm I think hot glue would keep them in place just fine

MoreliAddict · 03-28-12, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Bradyloach

Hmm I think hot glue would keep them in place just fine

hot glue to hold the probe in place on the hide, the water dish to keep the hide itself in place.

Bradyloach · 03-28-12, 08:07 AM

Umm I don't know anything about snakes but would the water dish be good on the ground?

KORBIN5895 · 03-28-12, 08:31 AM

I would worry about the uth getting too hot if the probe is on top of a hide.

MoreliAddict · 03-28-12, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

I would worry about the uth getting too hot if the probe is on top of a hide.

On top of a hide located in the hot side, above the uth.

KORBIN5895 · 03-28-12, 08:56 AM

I understand that but that looks to be about four inches above the uth. You will also be getting a reading from the Rhp. Is the uth and Rhp womas two separate thermostats?

MoreliAddict · 03-28-12, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

I understand that but that looks to be about four inches above the uth. You will also be getting a reading from the Rhp. Is the uth and Rhp womas two separate thermostats?

correct, it would be at least four inches above you UTH, maybe more. It would be sitting above the UTH and below the RHP. The UTH and RHP are both hooked to the same thermostat.

Snakefood · 03-28-12, 09:22 AM

I use aquarium silicone and place the probe down and the wire siliconed across the bottom and up the back corner.