Rosy Boa Heating question

[Alicewave]

I'm reading that during the day ambient temp for Rosy's needs to be 75ish and substrate temp needs to be around 88. I have a thermometer with a probe and buried an inch into the substrate over the UTH it reads 88 but if I bury it just below the surface of the substrate it's only about 77. I turned up the UTH with my dimmer because I am worried that this isn't warm enough to provide the right belly heat. As of now it reads about 82.

My question is, how far down into the substrate should the temp be 88? He doesn't burrow much on the warm side. If I need to get the temp higher than the current 82, should I take out some of the substrate to do this?

Any advice, experiences, or suggestions would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Meg
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[captainmorgan]

no experience with rosy boas but....does your rosy boa burrow at all?? If so he'll be hitting the 88 degrees he needs.....to my knowledge you'd want about 85-86 at the surface just on the warmer side for a rosy boa and maybe 78 on the cooler side. You don't gotta crank up the UTH because if he wants to get warm he'll just burrow down to the warmth...just my .02
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[alli_cat78]

finally a question I can answer, I feel so special [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]


they way you have it should be fine. they will burrow to the warmer temps if they want. My temps are just like that almost 90 way down in the substrate but less than 80 on the surface. t

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[Alicewave]

I guess I wasn't clear. I am using a UTH plugged into a dimmer (rheostat). I've got a layer of papertowel at the bottom and about two inches of "All God's Creatures" litter (kiln dried wood particles) above it. He does burrow but I've only seen him do it on the cool side so far. On the warm side I also have a 25 watt house bulb which seems to be keeping the ambient temp about perfect. Other info, he's in a 10 gallon, had a half log, a piece of Driftwood and a fake log thing and I put in his snake bag and a tshirt that he likes to curl up either in or under.
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[alli_cat78]

Alice ignore my original post... I'm illiterate! when a kind old man finally read the post outload to me, I edited my post to say --You right, way to go--

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your set-up sound great... cool surface sould not be a problem since its warm underneath
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