Purple pink toe, enclosure help

[Reptiles]

You should NOT use a heat lamp for the spider, not necessary.

That temp will be warm enough for sure. If your house stays around 70-72 degrees F you will be fine without that alternate source.

We in the UK and it it gets cold here. When we are not in the house the temp can drop. The heating also isn't on at night. We would need to use a heat source during winter.

 

[Ratmosphere]

Yea, and I'm in the northeast and it gets FREEZING here. I keep the house at 72, tarantula room at 74 and in the summer in the 70's.

Start with the pad first before the lamp.

 

[Reptiles]

Ok...but..I'm struggling to wrap my head around the mat story. How would one create an ambience of 25ish using a heat mat? It won't heat the air. Only the glass will be heated.

 

[Ratmosphere]

US keepers hate heat lamps and almost always stay away from them... does it really get THAT cold in your house?

 

[Reptiles]

US keepers hate heat lamps and almost always stay away from them... does it really get THAT cold in your house

The corn and royal python as well as the crested gecko are on deep heat protector lamps. I just walked downstairs and took the infrared gun and while I wasn't able to measure the ambient temp in the terrarium the adult would live in I was able to take the heat around the terrarium and it was 12 degrees Celsius. We don't have heating on at night and when we aren't in the house.

 

[AndrewClayton]

Ok...I went into CFTN and there is a sling available. We have also chatted and my hubby and I will rather use a nano heat lamp instead of a heat mat when the spider gets big enough for the enclosure. How long in general do pink toes take to get big enough to go into the terrarium? I read a thread about enclosure and using cups to house the slings.

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Must I place the cup onto top of the mesh which is insulated on top of my snake vivarium. Worried that it will get cold and can't place it on a heat mat. The cups would be too small to have a gradient and to place on a mat. How do people keep their slings warm enough?

I saw a thread of examples of housing on this forum and will be following that. How does a person water them if the cup and their little mini environment is so small? Lol!

They can grow relatively fast what is the exact species you're getting and has he told you a size of it? Yes the area you're describing sounds fine, what most people do if the area is too cold is heat a bigger tank with a heat mat and place the smaller cups inside with the slings. As slings you don't bother with a water dish just wet the substrate and give the enclosure a mist every few days.

 

[AndrewClayton]

You should NOT use a heat lamp for the spider, not necessary.

That temp will be warm enough for sure. If your house stays around 70-72 degrees F you will be fine without that alternate source.

They said earlier it gets colder than 17°c which is 62f

 

[AndrewClayton]

We just checked with our heat gun and the area in the corner on top of our other snakes wooden Viv is bang on 25 degrees. If we place the cup in that area it should be warm enough?

This area I'm talking about sounds great

 

[Ratmosphere]

I disagree with Andrew about not keeping a water dish, definitely do it. Been keeping Avics for years with 0 deaths.

 

[AndrewClayton]

I disagree with Andrew about not keeping a water dish, definitely do it. Been keeping Avics for years with 0 deaths.

0 deaths here too this is how I keep them until around an inch then they get water dishes. Just mist the enclosure.