are these good temps?

arkuden · 10-01-04, 09:01 PM

Ok, i went to wal mart today as advised and got a nice digi thermometer and hydrometer (sp?) it looks the the warmest spot in the tank where he usually hides is about 95.3. now the air temp in the entire house isabout 60.2 so i think im at a good number right? sadly the digi only has one probe to it and i dont know if its safe to mount the actual device inside the tank? heres a pic and ill highlight where i put the probe.

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thanks for any help!

arkuden · 10-01-04, 09:05 PM

hmmm no pic.... lets try again

BoidKeeper · 10-01-04, 09:16 PM

My suggestion would be to move to a lower water bowl and place it all the way over to the cool side. You temps should be 90-95 hot end, 80-85 cool end. No lower then 75 on the cool end at night. So if the cool side is 60 that is way too cool and that is why you snake is staying on the hot side all the time.
Doesn't matter where you mount that hydrometer the humidity in that tank will be the same as in the room if not dryer because you have nothing in there that will hold humidity. Also with an open top glass tank the humidity rises straight out the top along with the heat. If I were you I would lay the tank on it's side making it front opening. I do this with a lot of my tanks, including my Brazilian Rainbow boa tanks and it makes a big difference. Heat and humidity don't flowing straight out the top. Just my two cents. I hope you can use some of it. Does it make sense?
Cheers,
Trevor

arkuden · 10-01-04, 09:26 PM

wow thats a really good idea i didnt think of before. I suppose it will only shorten the height of the tank but i dont suppose he really needs that.

Also i forgot to add that i tried to find a normal human heat pad at wal mart today but i had no luck. All they had were heated mattress pads and huge blankets. They were big and about 60 bucks. I forgot to check on dimmers but ill go back tonight and look again. Maybe i didnt ask correctly on the heat pad thing. is there a more specific term for it or should i look somewhere else. My places to check are: wal mark, k mark, target, menards, fleet farm and maybe some small general stores like ace hardware. Thanks!

HetForHuman · 10-01-04, 09:39 PM

The heatpads i get at walmart are always in the pharmacy or med section, the ones i get are always by the back massagers and stuff there.

They are called SunBeam health at home heatpads, and they should have a low, med, and high settings on it.

Just make sure you do NOT get the one with the automatic shutoff, or it will shut itself off within an hour i think..

arkuden · 10-01-04, 10:42 PM

no luck... our wal-mart is ******** here, they dont have anything like that.... they dont even have dimmers. Im so mad right now. I hate this dumb town... grrrrr

Vengeance · 10-02-04, 06:43 AM

Check your local hardware store for a light dimmer. If you can't find one, check out this thread....

http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/showt...&threadid=8858

These things have worked great for me and they are very easy to build.

For the heat pads go to your local pharmacy i'll bet you'll find one there.

iguanarob · 10-02-04, 12:22 PM

You dont want the ball pythons temp to go below 70 degrees thats to cold. I would keep the snakes temp at 85-90 during the day, and at night between 75-80. If the snakes experiences to cold of temp it can get upper respitory infection. Don't let the snake get to hot either like above 100 for long period of time. Having a hidebox for any snake is great. It reduces stress.

arkuden · 10-02-04, 02:50 PM

Great news!!! Ok i got echo to eat his first t/k mouse today... i know it isnt a rat but he wont have any trouble switching either way. Ive got a load of mice and babies right now so if they are big enough i might as well get rid of them the way echo likes haha. He didnt want to grab it at first when i placed it in his tub, but then i took some prongs and nudged it closer to him and finnaly he took it.

This is getting better and better every day!!

Ok next thing. I made the dimmer that Vengeance gave me the link for. Being a computer nerd is helpful when playing with that kinda stuff. The box looks great now and im hoping that it works

I also changed his cage and did as BoidKeeper suggested. The water bowl is on the farthest end and the tank is on its side with the screen as the front. I removed those crappy round thermometers haha and now every thing looks really sweet and hopefully ill have his temps at about 88ish in an hour or so for him. right now its 80 degrees.... and seems to be dropping lower maybe the switch got pushed in so it was off... hey hey thats what it was now its at 81.3 and looking goog. I just want to give a ton of thanks to all of you helping me on this. I owe you all one.

On a side note i cannot find heat pads anywhere yet, but this might be a good fix untill i can get to a bigger town that i can get it at. Cheers!!!!@!

Paul