New Jungle owner – is enclosure and temps okay?

[BBBex]

Hey this is our first snake, very exciting (15month Jungle)
We have him in a wooden enclosure with glass font doors (aprox 900mm wide by 450mm deep and 600mm high)
During the day he has a heating light on (reptile one brand, has metal mesh casing, and an inbuilt fan) and a heat cord under the enclosure both plugged into a thermostat. The hottest temp we have recorded during the day is 34d and 28d at opposite end from the heat source (the thermostat is set to 32d but did not switch off as the probe is located on the middle of the enclose and that temp reading was from closer to the bottom, or the thermostat is dodgy). At nighttime we turn the light off and the temp where he generally sits on a branch most the time is 25d.
Is the light source we are using okay? The breeder mention the fan might dry out his skin?
We will be feeding him for the first time this weekend, while he is digesting is there a temp it is recommended not to drop below?

(we are located in Brisbane)

Look forward to feed back, many thanks

 

[JAS101]

Hi
34d might be a little high , i keep my jungle at 32 d . I dont know how much the heat cord under the enclosure would be doing [ heat wise] , i guess it would deppend on what substrate / flooring cover you are using . The thermostat probe i would be moving more towards the hot area to try and get a little better graident between hot and cold areas . This is just my opinion ..
P.S welcome to the forum , and pics of your snake and enclosure would be great

 

[bpb02]

If your heat source is off over night then I would be thinking your temps would be getting down to around 20 over night which would probably be a bit cold. Can you run the heat cord over night?

 

[JAS101]

If your heat source is off over night then I would be thinking your temps would be getting down to around 20 over night which would probably be a bit cold. Can you run the heat cord over night?

I guess it would deppend on where the snake was brought from , weather they had the heat on 24hrs a day .
i dont run any heat at night for my jungle and other snakes since middle of jan . The heat turns off at 8pm and comes on at 6am via timers . All of my snakes are eating like troopers and are still growing good . But this is just the way i have mine setup , and my snakes are doing fine like this .

 

[BBBex]

Just the light is turned off at night, we leave the heat cord on.

The enclosure is sat on a desk with about 20mm high wood pieces in between to giving it an elevated area where the heat cord sits. The heat cord is 25watt. Do you think this needs to be in a smaller gap, the wood is also about 20mm thick, or is there a better way to use the heat cord, so it gives more heat when the light is off?

 

[JAS101]

Maybe you could build a tiled heat cord setup with a thermostat and put it inside the enclosure?.
I will take pics of the tiled setup i am doing atm .
Its just a tile with 6.5mm square balsor wood glued in place , i could have gone the router way but i thought id give this way a try first.
to hold the 2 tiles together im just going to put a little silicone in 2 corners .
All i need now is a thermostat and away i go [ as setup gets too hot without a thermostat ]

 

[BBBex]

does this go over the whole floor of the enclosure, or do you leave a cool side?

 

[Jarden]

bbbex Hi welcome to aps. If you just have your heatcord under the enclosure i wouldnt even bother about it as it wont be putting out any heat at all or hardly any at that. Move your thermostat prove up to where the basking spot is in the enclosure, e.g the branch he likes to sit to warm up. Make sure you get that temp to around 30 - 32 degrees then Just leave it at that thats all ive done with my jungle and he is doing fine!. Leave the light on all night if u have a infrared bulb to keep the temps up as winters are getting fairly cold at night now.

Jarden