Optimum temp without gradient?

[Loren]

Dont forget about timers- 5 bucks at a hardware store and that lamp will turn on and off for you.

[KITKAT]

Dont forget about timers- 5 bucks at a hardware store and that lamp will turn on and off for you.

Excellent reminder! Thanks!

[KITKAT]

Thought you all might enjoy this...

[guidofatherof5]

Very nice looking group.

[Stefan-A]

Any ideas?

Heat pad and improved ventilation.




Have the enclosure rest on two pieces of wood and place the heat pad (blue in the picture) between one of them and the enclosure. With this system, I've managed to create gradients in enclosures as small as 5 litres.

[ssssnakeluvr]

Well could'nt the snakes get a respiratory infection if you leave the lamp off at 65?

nope....have found garters crawling around outside in lower temps.... they are very cold tolerant snakes.


nice pic! cute little buggars!!!!!!

[KITKAT]

Heat pad and improved ventilation.

Have the enclosure rest on two pieces of wood and place the heat pad (blue in the picture) between one of them and the enclosure. With this system, I've managed to create gradients in enclosures as small as 5 litres.

Thanks for that tip!

Right now, I have 80 at one end, and 75 at the other, with 72 under a hide at that end. Two are eating well, and I intend to move them to a ten gallon in my basement. I can get a gradient in that tank.

The two others are not eating well. One is eating occasionally, the other is not eating at all. I am forcep feeding that one. So those two will stay on the desktop for awhile yet.