Thermostat

[reen08]

At the moment I have 2 analogue with led indicator hooked up. I'm going to change this shortly as I've found it's not very reliable.

I'm looking at buying a Vivarium Electronics VE-300X2. Can you tell me if any of you have used this type and is it any good. If not, what would you recommend for temp/humidty?

I have 2 pythons

Thanks for your help

 

[reen08]

Also looking at a Herpstat

 

[pythoninfinite]

Don't worry about humidity unless you have highly sensitive species, such as GTPs, but even then it's not critical to manage it closely.

Jamie

 

[pinefamily]

We've never worried about humidity, unless any of our snakes had trouble shedding. That has mainly been our spotted's; a bigger water bowl (wider surface area) did the trick.
Regarding thermostats, we use timers instead. Just plug your heat source into the timer, and play around with the on-off increments until you get good temps. Best way to measure your temps is with an infra red temp gun, rather than a thermometer.
All of our snakes are healthy, eating and shedding with no problems.

 

[reen08]

I bought the enclosure and it already had an analogue temp gauge with 2 ceramic lamp holders all wired together. Would it be better to get a sparky in to rip out the old analogue? At the moment I'm getting lamps on their own switch, moon glow on its own switch.

What would you recommend?

I would like to have the basking on during the day and switch over to moon at night. I'll be adding a waterfall which I can turn on once a week for humidity if needed. Enclosure also has an internal power point with no switch at all, so that is always a live point