Your heat source may not injure your animal via direct burns, but without a thermometer, how long would it take you to realise that your thermostat has failed and the entire enclosure has heated up? No more heat gradient...just a hot box for your poor animal to endure for however long it takes for you to realise this. Without a thermometer, could be a while. I glance at my thermometers often.
You are assuming that your thermostat is accurate, but a bit of reading or experience would highlight the fact that they are inaccurate a lot of the time, and can also be unreliable.
You have also failed to consider the fact that your temps could be too low, due to relying solely on the thermostat. Low temps = digestion issues.
Get a thermometer, there is absolutely no reason not to, and there is no logic behind advocating using a thermostat only.
OK, valid points, however I never said to not use a thermometer. I said in one of mine I don't. Bear in mind with the size of globe I'm using coupled with shear size of enclosure it couldn't overheat, even without thermostat. As for assuming my thermostat is accurate, I said I checked it with thermometer, I regularly do. What I said is you must be able to rely on thermostat. How do you check your temps when you're not home? Surely on occasion you leave for long enough to overheat if your thermostat fails
Your heat source may not injure your animal via direct burns, but without a thermometer, how long would it take you to realise that your thermostat has failed and the entire enclosure has heated up? No more heat gradient...just a hot box for your poor animal to endure for however long it takes for you to realise this. Without a thermometer, could be a while. I glance at my thermometers often.
You are assuming that your thermostat is accurate, but a bit of reading or experience would highlight the fact that they are inaccurate a lot of the time, and can also be unreliable.
You have also failed to consider the fact that your temps could be too low, due to relying solely on the thermostat. Low temps = digestion issues.
Get a thermometer, there is absolutely no reason not to, and there is no logic behind advocating using a thermostat only.
OK, valid points, however I never said to not use a thermometer. I said in one of mine I don't. Bear in mind with the size of globe I'm using coupled with shear size of enclosure it couldn't overheat, even without thermostat. As for assuming my thermostat is accurate, I said I checked it with thermometer, I regularly do. What I said is you must be able to rely on thermostat. How do you check your temps when you're not home? Surely on occasion you leave for long enough to overheat if your thermostat fails
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Also, I must've missed something cause I never advocated not using a thermometer
Your heat source may not injure your animal via direct burns, but without a thermometer, how long would it take you to realise that your thermostat has failed and the entire enclosure has heated up? No more heat gradient...just a hot box for your poor animal to endure for however long it takes for you to realise this. Without a thermometer, could be a while. I glance at my thermometers often.
You are assuming that your thermostat is accurate, but a bit of reading or experience would highlight the fact that they are inaccurate a lot of the time, and can also be unreliable.
You have also failed to consider the fact that your temps could be too low, due to relying solely on the thermostat. Low temps = digestion issues.
Get a thermometer, there is absolutely no reason not to, and there is no logic behind advocating using a thermostat only.
OK, valid points, however I never said to not use a thermometer. I said in one of mine I don't. Bear in mind with the size of globe I'm using coupled with shear size of enclosure it couldn't overheat, even without thermostat. As for assuming my thermostat is accurate, I said I checked it with thermometer, I regularly do. What I said is you must be able to rely on thermostat. How do you check your temps when you're not home? Surely on occasion you leave for long enough to overheat if your thermostat fails
Your heat source may not injure your animal via direct burns, but without a thermometer, how long would it take you to realise that your thermostat has failed and the entire enclosure has heated up? No more heat gradient...just a hot box for your poor animal to endure for however long it takes for you to realise this. Without a thermometer, could be a while. I glance at my thermometers often.
You are assuming that your thermostat is accurate, but a bit of reading or experience would highlight the fact that they are inaccurate a lot of the time, and can also be unreliable.
You have also failed to consider the fact that your temps could be too low, due to relying solely on the thermostat. Low temps = digestion issues.
Get a thermometer, there is absolutely no reason not to, and there is no logic behind advocating using a thermostat only.
OK, valid points, however I never said to not use a thermometer. I said in one of mine I don't. Bear in mind with the size of globe I'm using coupled with shear size of enclosure it couldn't overheat, even without thermostat. As for assuming my thermostat is accurate, I said I checked it with thermometer, I regularly do. What I said is you must be able to rely on thermostat. How do you check your temps when you're not home? Surely on occasion you leave for long enough to overheat if your thermostat fails
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Also, I must've missed something cause I never advocated not using a thermometer
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I also have plenty of reading experience, please don't assume that I don't. There's more to keeping reptiles than reading