How to properly place a thermostat probe in a snake viv

[dannybgoode]

Shame you guys over the Pond don't get heat guards. So cheap to mad manufacture and very very useful. Maybe there's a market for someone to make one.

There are three manufactures of thermostats that allow temperature variation. Habistat allow a day time temp and a night time temp but then allow those two temps to fluctuate by a set amount to mimic say cloud cover, moving from shade to non - shade etc. So your day time temp could be 30c +/- 2c.

The one I am using allows 4 temps so I start at 7 am with a hot spot of 30c the increase to 33-34c at 1pm, then drop to 30c again at 7pm then to 27c at 1am. These of course are hotspot temps so ambient temps are somewhat less.

The final one which is new on the market and I'm keen to try is from istat and that allows an hourly temp curve to allow a really nice thermal change throughout the day.

Don't know what you have in the US that is similar.

[bigsnakegirl785]

Originally Posted by dannybgoode

Shame you guys over the Pond don't get heat guards. So cheap to mad manufacture and very very useful. Maybe there's a market for someone to make one.

There are three manufactures of thermostats that allow temperature variation. Habistat allow a day time temp and a night time temp but then allow those two temps to fluctuate by a set amount to mimic say cloud cover, moving from shade to non - shade etc. So your day time temp could be 30c +/- 2c.

The one I am using allows 4 temps so I start at 7 am with a hot spot of 30c the increase to 33-34c at 1pm, then drop to 30c again at 7pm then to 27c at 1am. These of course are hotspot temps so ambient temps are somewhat less.

The final one which is new on the market and I'm keen to try is from istat and that allows an hourly temp curve to allow a really nice thermal change throughout the day.

Don't know what you have in the US that is similar.

I think some models of Herpstat do, and maybe some of the newer Vivarium Electronics models as well.