Spotted Python Day Light & Heat Pad

Video Transcript

"On the other side of the enclosure, you're going to have your day bulb. So you have another heat lamp, with a day light bulb, okay. You'll probably want that to be around in the 100 watt area, though you're going to have to test it out at home and see what temperatures you're reaching to know for certain. What a day bulb is, it's just like a regular light bulb. It puts off normal day light, so you can see your reptile during the day. So you want that on the other side of your aquarium. Then you're going to get a heat pad, okay, and that heat pad is going to go on the night side. It goes on the outside of the aquarium, underneath. Make sure you follow the directions when you're putting it on. It comes with little rubber feet. Those need to go on each corner of the aquarium on the bottom as well, to make sure no heat gets stuck and it doesn't crack the bottom of your aquarium. Now, the last and very important tool you need for your enclosure when you're talking about heat is your thermometers. You have to have a thermometer in every reptile enclosure, period. No excuses. The number one biggest mistake people do. Get one of these in your enclosure. Generally, I like to have two, one on each side of the enclosure, one on the higher end on the day bulb and the low side of the aquarium on the night bulb. That's going to show you your heat gradient. It'll tell you the highest temperature you're reaching and the lowest temperature you're reaching. Couple of different kinds of thermometers you can look at. There's a dial thermometer, it's a sticky back, it's got a little dial, you just stick it on the back of the aquarium and it's going to read your heat for you. Here's another one, it's a little bit bigger, maybe a little bit easier to read, and then there's of course your digital thermometers, which go on the outside of the aquarium and have a probe that'll run inside. You can move that around to gage different temperatures in different areas. The digital thermometers are my particular favorite. Don't use those LCD ones that stick on the inside or the outside of the aquarium and it's a little strip that reads off the temperature. Very hard to read, and they're very inaccurate."