Alex and the Redfoot
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A car ride does "wonders" to tortoises. Don't know about the snakes, but get a box of tissues just in case.
Lol that’s actually a good point! It’d honestly great if she did! Messy.. but great😂A car ride does "wonders" to tortoises. Don't know about the snakes, but get a box of tissues just in case.
Brilliant thanks Alex, just got the bulbs in, only been about 20 mins but looking good already, going to monitor for a few hours, check with the gun, then let it cool back down for us to pin exactly where we want the sensors cause we’ve got them in a temporary spot atm.Yes, it's better to let anything plastic to "off-gas" in heated enclosure before putting substrate. Also, any glue has to dry before you increase the humidity.
Humidity itself should not affect temperatures in a long-term. Evaporation will cool down things, e.g. when you open the vivarium, but when it's closed temperatures will be stable. Also you set a thermostat at exact temperature and it will keep it, no matter what humidity is.
That's why temp guns existBrilliant thanks Alex, just got the bulbs in, only been about 20 mins but looking good already, going to monitor for a few hours, check with the gun, then let it cool back down for us to pin exactly where we want the sensors cause we’ve got them in a temporary spot atm.
One of the bulbs didn’t come on cause I hadn’t turned one of the thermos up yet and so to check the other bulb I went and burnt my damn fingers😂idk what I was thinking touching it!🤣hopefully that’s all that will go wrong today haha!🤪
Lol I know, I’m quite the fool🤣That's why temp guns exist![]()
Happens to everyone from time to time, no worries. Just put off electricity works for todayLol I know, I’m quite the fool🤣
Yeah we’re keeping the uv off till a few days before I think to save the bulb😊Happens to everyone from time to time, no worries. Just put off electricity works for todayAnd don't look at UVB lamp
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Still got the 150 running, and got the thermometer as close as we can get it with the wire, think we’re going to order another that has a longer one though cause need it close ideally, we’ll have one the other side on moving day but she’s using it for now so doing lots of temp gun checks.I suggest to make another test with 150W heater.
Bake a thermometer probe for an hour under the heat source. Probe is usually placed on a rock to be at tortoise shell level, but you will need something higher (like a tea mug) to account for substrate height as well.
And I would have one spare CHE for the winter. As per Murphy's law you will need a replacement on holiday evening.
Thanks for that info! The hot spot isn’t ideal but I definitely feel less anxious about it now, it sat around 96 yesterday directly underneath, hopefully with a hide or something over it, it’ll be less of an issue too, I’ll have a play about with the sensors later, got the heating running to off gas everything for now🙂On a pulse thermostat in a few hours after temperatures have settled down hot spot should be less noticeable.
On the other hand, 90 and even 95 degrees is not something to be worried about. I guess I have found an explanation for the "redfoots don't need a basking lamp" advice. In one of the older threads there was the concern, that they bask too much under the lamp. Outdoors they sit for 30-60 minutes under the sun, usually in the morning, and then stay away from the bright sun. Indoors they often bask for hours under the lamp and this results in pyramiding. There were two options to resolve this - set basking lamp on 2 hours timers or just remove it.
So you can still have 150W CHE with a hot spot, just make sure she doesn't stay too long under it.