Extensionofgreen
Arachnosquire
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2017
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I see lots of advice stating A) not to use heat mats and B) you don't generally need to provide heat, if keeping them in a traditionally heated house.
I use seedling mats to heat my roach bins and these can easily be hooked up to a thermostat. They are designed to heat the substrate 10-20F than room temp. What is the danger with using them, if you provide deep substrate and the bottom of the enclosure isn't flat against the mat ( think of critter keepers having the little legs at the corners )?
Do you agree that desert scorps are really happy at room temperature? I know they enjoy a night temp drop and wouldn't expect they'd enjoy constantly hot conditions, but wouldn't keeping them at 80-85F be most comfortable to them, with mid 60s and 70sF at night?
When I kept Ts and scorps years ago, I heated the room they were in and since I don't have baseboard heat and my basement is kept cooler for my montane reptiles and plants, I want to make sure I'm doing things right with my incoming acquisitions. I've been away from arachnids for about 10 years, but am happy to be jumping back in and catching up on what's new in the world of arachnid husbandry.
I use seedling mats to heat my roach bins and these can easily be hooked up to a thermostat. They are designed to heat the substrate 10-20F than room temp. What is the danger with using them, if you provide deep substrate and the bottom of the enclosure isn't flat against the mat ( think of critter keepers having the little legs at the corners )?
Do you agree that desert scorps are really happy at room temperature? I know they enjoy a night temp drop and wouldn't expect they'd enjoy constantly hot conditions, but wouldn't keeping them at 80-85F be most comfortable to them, with mid 60s and 70sF at night?
When I kept Ts and scorps years ago, I heated the room they were in and since I don't have baseboard heat and my basement is kept cooler for my montane reptiles and plants, I want to make sure I'm doing things right with my incoming acquisitions. I've been away from arachnids for about 10 years, but am happy to be jumping back in and catching up on what's new in the world of arachnid husbandry.