thats as high as this heat thing will go if thats to low then ill go bye another, i just lossed my baby redtail (Envy) a few days ago and im so worried somthing might happen to this one (Meka) so i want everything perfect!
2007-02-10 06:19:34 · 5 answers · asked by Kenny Mccormick 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
I keep the warm end of our Colombian RTB's cage around 87-90 and my cool end is at around 80 all the time. There is no need to drop the temps at night unless you are planning on breeding your snake. If you are having problems keeping the temps up try useing either a more powerful UTH or use a CHE(ceramic heat emitter) or bulb(infrared only) and an UTH. We have a UTH(I don't know the watts) on the warm side and a 150 watt infrared bulb on the cool side in an 80gal mesh top tank.
Make sure you provide a hide at each end for the snake to thermoregulate and you have a DIGITAL thermometer that gives both the warm and cool side temps. YOu can get these at Wal-Mart for about $12 in the hardware depo. They are made by Acurite and have the warm(with the probe), cool, and humidity. Let the new snake be for a full week to get used to its new home. No handling and no feeding. Good luck.
2007-02-10 13:23:57 · answer #1 · answered by T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My temp in my tank goes from around 85-90 on the hot side with the heat lamp on and then it drops to between 70-75 at night with the light off. I have an under the tank heater, but haven't turned that on lately because it was getting too hot, so I got a dimmer switch and put on it and have it set where it helps, but right now I haven't had to use it. Don't blame yourself as far as the temp to what happen with Envy, it should have been fine with around 85. the advice the first guy gave you is right on the money. Also make sure you provide it a hide so that it can feel secure. better to give it two, one hot side, one cool side.
2007-02-10 15:53:10 · answer #2 · answered by hartsock1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
85-90 degrees on the hot end 75-84 on the cool end then at night drop the temps about 10 degrees and keep the humidity up to about 60-70 percent and feed every 7-10 days
2007-02-10 15:04:51 · answer #3 · answered by Christopher C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep your heat source on one end of the cage so the animal can regulate its own body temp.
is there any more details you can give us about the care your animal is recieving (food conditions, for example, dont use a mouse found inside of a mouse trap because of poisons, etc. that could help us help you)
make sure it has clean water at all times and a hide spot, reptiles get stressed easily)
2007-02-10 15:53:49 · answer #4 · answered by bree7775 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats too hot!
2007-02-11 01:35:34 · answer #5 · answered by insane_mrsinister_unknown 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋