I've landed on a a pretty good hoggie setup...

Humble308 · 09-21-15, 08:07 AM

Some of you may recall with not being able to hold temps very effectively with a UTH. I completely changed the set up yesterday and my hoggie seems to love it!

First step was moving the cage right next to an upstairs window letting in some warming natural light. I then screwed a coat hanger to the window frame and clamped a work light with a 100W ceramic heat emitter. Using this method I can easily adjust the height of the emitter. Coupled with the UTH the warm side surface stay around 92 with the cool side in the low to mid 80's. The emitter is about 6 inches from the surface of the screen. My hoggie seems to LOVE the basking heat and her activity has been great. It's nice to finally see her out of burrow and exploring the cage. I also added a maple branch, which she seems to appreciate the cover.

Minkness this may be the answer you were looking for in your earlier post.

My hog seems to be happy now after a long day of hissing at me. I think my next project will be breeding American Toads for feeders. She's been taking scented pinks just fine, but if I can breed toads or frogs then I'd like to make the switch back to an animal that a hog nose loves eating. I'll let yall know how it goes!

Semper FI,
Derek G

Humble308 · 09-21-15, 09:42 AM

I went back to the house to grab a couple things for work and I found her hanging like tarzan off the branch yumming up all the good morning sun. This is a great sign!

SnoopySnake · 09-21-15, 11:34 AM

Please be careful putting the tank in front of a window. The heat can come in and not be able to escape and can overheat your snake.

Humble308 · 09-23-15, 09:49 AM

Thanks for the warning, ambient temps around here have been in the 60s and checking the tank all day has shown that the tank stays in safe temps. Once summer hits again I'll look at scooting the tank over a bit.

Eggplant · 12-21-15, 03:04 AM

Amazing! I didnt know hognoses could hang like that from branches.

**Tsubaki** · 12-21-15, 05:47 AM

Awesome! My hogs would manage to fall off everything, nice to see they're not all that climbing disabled!

Salty Rob · 12-21-15, 01:48 PM

That's pretty cool. And beautiful snakes

Humble308 · 12-21-15, 02:15 PM

haha thanks yall. I find her hanging off stuff all the time. I've since moved her away from the window since I had company staying in that room. But the UTH coupled with the CHE seems to be a good combo for that style tank. Though I must say I have no problem with Flexwatt and rheostats...and it's cheaper in the long run and they keep temps just fine. Here's a couple more recent pictures of her after her first shed (finally!).