Summer weather

[HEVYCHEVY427]

This might be a really dumb question, but here goes. Keeping a cold side in the winter can be done with out much trouble. You can heat a side. If the entire room is humid and warm ...is that the cold side ...and the warm side is just the way it is now warmer? Or do you have to try to cool a side down? Just a dumb question.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Impossible to answer unless we know the animals in question.

[HEVYCHEVY427]

I am keeping kings, corns, and milks.

[Lisa]

yes, unless you have the enclosures in a climate controled room you will have the heat on the warm side raise that much more compared to the ambient temp.

[fr0glet]

I keep milks and corns in my herp room. Ambient temperature in my herp room is 78F-80F in the day and 40% humidity all the time.

Thereby this is the minimum "cool side" tank temp in my herp tanks. Basking area "warm side" must be created with the addition of a heat device (UTH, light, whatever).

Also, if you think your tank might be TOO warm on the cool side (like middle of summer), you can try increasing ventilation with a small fan (like a tiny clip-on or desktop or computer case fan) and make sure you have a big bowl of cool fresh water for them to soak in if it's too hot. Once my space heater got left on high and when I came in my herp room EVERYONE was in their water dish trying to cool down! :O

Hope that helps!

[Hope_H]

I have the same problem in summer. I don't have air conditioning in my herp room, and the room was sometimes 90*. I kept cold water for them at all times and figured in was a hot summer for our local wild ones too. (I keep Corn Snakes) Also had 2 window fans going...

[Burmies]

Just turn off the lights and heatting pads for a while if the temp is that high.

Burmies

here in the southwest I always have to shut off all heat after daytime temps go over 90F(32C). fine with me, it saves electric lol. keep them with plenty of water preferably a bowl large enough for them to soak in when they want. It really is good to have this question come up once in a while, here where I live the snakes that I don't keep are the ones that prefer temps below or around 90F because during the summer when temps may reach 107F(42C) for days and almost never below 100F from mid-June until Sept. so here cooling is more of an issue

[Lisa]

I think this summer we're going to experiment with putting an a/c unit in the herp room to keep it @ 80ish... I haven't found any that have a thermostat you can set, only ones that have 3 settings, low, med and high so temp control could be interesting.

[marisa]

My corns and kings don't get any extra heat in the summer.

They have done fine this way for two years now, not long but they are doing good. As soon as the temps in my room are no longer 80+ then I return the heat source to the rack, like in the fall.

Marisa