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22-Jan-07, 08:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Sydney West and Manly area. Age: 16 | | |
hello everyone i have got tsbj making me and enclosur with a heat light thermostat and uv fluro is there anything i need to add on to this (timers).
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23-Jan-07, 09:24 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 36  | | | |
Hi Pythomaniac,
I have a similar setup to your future one for my Diamond Pythons. I use two timers - one for the heat and one for the UV light.
Typically, I have the UV light coming on after sunrise and before sunset, so that they still get a natural light gradient. Some people don't turn their heat source off at night, but given that Diamonds are a cool weather python, I think it's important for the heat to be turned off for at least a few hours.
Oh, and the other thing I recommend is using marine carpet as a substrate. It costs a bit more initially, but it looks great and is easy to clean. I have four pieces - each half the size of the enclosure. This means that I've always got two clean pieces ready to swap in when the others get soiled.
Cheers,
Nic
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23-Jan-07, 12:11 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Sydney West and Manly area. Age: 16 | | |
thanks i will get to timers from bunnings (work) with my 20% discount  . what are some times for the light and uv.
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23-Jan-07, 09:53 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Adelaide | | |
Being An Electrician I Thought I'd Set-up Something Fancy Just To Waste Time So Here's What I Did. Got Myself A Rather Nice Expensive ($200) Timer From The Side Of An Old Switchboard And Started To Play. Now My Tank Is Fully Automated!
See Pics.......
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x2 Bredli Pythons
x2 Darwin Carpets
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24-Jan-07, 09:03 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 36 | | | |
Hi Pythomaniac,
Here's how I set my enclosure up for Summer (in Melbourne) ...
UV light - Comes on around 9am and goes off around 7pm. This ensures that there is a natural light gradient in the mornings and at night. Not sure how important that is, but it seems like the right thing to do to me.
Heating globes - I use several red (40W) and blue (25W) party globes biased towards one end for heating purposes connected to a thermostat set at 26 degrees. This gives me a warm end of around 28 degrees (30 just under the red globes) and a cool end of around 20 degrees. They come on at about 8am and go off around 2am. I also turn them off for a few hours in the afternoon during the hotter months and utilize the natural external heat.
I deliberately leave the coloured globes on in the evening so that I can observe them when they are most active. In case you didn't know, snakes don't see the red and blue light very well, so the globes are primarily a heat source (as opposed to a light source). The theory is the snakes think the enclosure is dark so they can begin their nocturnal wanderings, but we can still see them.
Cheers,
Nic
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