I set my enclosures up differently couple days ago. I like to keep them set up around the same way, it's just easier for me that way. So I have the tube lighting that hangs over entire enclosure for UVB and I have the CHE and basking light on the right side of the enclosure. I have their humid hide in the left side. I moved their hide to the left side because I originally had them on right side and they where staying in the 90 degrees range so I figured I would put them on cool side, better nite temps, right?, wrong. Now I find that the hide temps at nite are bordering to low. Like 79-80. So I figured ok I will turn up my thermostat. The sensor to my thermostat is closer to the hide then the CHE. So I turn up my thermostat and it will eventually get the hide temps up but in the process it also raises the hot side temps up, 100-106. So my hot side is to hot and my cool side is almost to cool. I usually won't worry about 79, but after I had two of my baby's die and not real sure why, I figured nothing below 82/83 would be ok for the cool side and the hot side around 90. My basking spot is 96-98, which is recommended but I never see my baby's use their basking spot, not one time. Usually during the day the temps aren't really a problem, I guess since the basking light is one and it raises the temps. For example, right now, my leopards enclosure, hot side is 90.1, cool side is 83.3, hide is 83.7, these are great. Humidity is 99%.
The quads, hot side 94.6, cool side 89.6, hide 86.5. Humidity is 97%. These temps are slightly higher then what I'm shooting for (all the quads just laying around) but I can reduce basking bulb size and reduce these temps some. What is freaking confusingly is at night, before I raise the thermostat, the hot side will still have good temps but the cool side and hide drops below satisfactory. So how do I fix this? Put hide closer to CHE? Move thermostat probe closer to hide? Maybe put a heating cable, one those under the tank heating pad things or something in/or under the hide? I'm not sure what would be the best fix. Their hides are Tupperware shoe box with hinged lid. I cut a door toward the top of it and I sink it in the substrate some. The hide is filled with a 1-2" layer of damp Eco earth and spag moss on top the Eco earth. I cover the top of the hide with a bunch of fake plant so they feel safe but yet I can still peak in or open it as I need to.
Last night I was thinking about this, attempting to figure it out, couple things I wasn't sure about.
The room their in, it gets kinda cold in the evening cause the heat pump runs more, it's usually low 70's, upper 60's and it will stay around that until heat pump quits running so much, usually couple hours after sun set. I checked the temp this morning, heat pump hadn't been on since about midnight, it was 84 in there. I thought about taping up the duct in the room, try to keep the room temp more stable. I'm not sure how to fix this. Any advise greatly appreciated.
The quads, hot side 94.6, cool side 89.6, hide 86.5. Humidity is 97%. These temps are slightly higher then what I'm shooting for (all the quads just laying around) but I can reduce basking bulb size and reduce these temps some. What is freaking confusingly is at night, before I raise the thermostat, the hot side will still have good temps but the cool side and hide drops below satisfactory. So how do I fix this? Put hide closer to CHE? Move thermostat probe closer to hide? Maybe put a heating cable, one those under the tank heating pad things or something in/or under the hide? I'm not sure what would be the best fix. Their hides are Tupperware shoe box with hinged lid. I cut a door toward the top of it and I sink it in the substrate some. The hide is filled with a 1-2" layer of damp Eco earth and spag moss on top the Eco earth. I cover the top of the hide with a bunch of fake plant so they feel safe but yet I can still peak in or open it as I need to.
Last night I was thinking about this, attempting to figure it out, couple things I wasn't sure about.
The room their in, it gets kinda cold in the evening cause the heat pump runs more, it's usually low 70's, upper 60's and it will stay around that until heat pump quits running so much, usually couple hours after sun set. I checked the temp this morning, heat pump hadn't been on since about midnight, it was 84 in there. I thought about taping up the duct in the room, try to keep the room temp more stable. I'm not sure how to fix this. Any advise greatly appreciated.