on the other side of the enclosure, you'regoing to have your day bulb. so you have another heat lamp, with a day light bulb, okay. you'llprobably want that to be around in the 100 watt area, though you're going to have totest it out at home and see what temperatures you're reaching to know for certain. whata day bulb is, it's just like a regular light bulb. it puts off normal day light, so youcan see your reptile during the day. so you
heat mat for corn snake, 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 nightside. it goes on the outside of the aquarium, underneath. make sure you follow the directionswhen you're putting it on. it comes with little rubber feet. those need to go on each cornerof the aquarium on the bottom as well, to
make sure no heat gets stuck and it doesn'tcrack the bottom of your aquarium. now, the last and very important tool you need foryour enclosure when you're talking about heat is your thermometers. you have to have a thermometerin 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 theenclosure, one on the higher end on the day bulb and the low side of the aquarium on thenight bulb. that's going to show you your heat gradient. it'll tell you the highesttemperature you're reaching and the lowest temperature you're reaching. couple of differentkinds of thermometers you can look at. there's a dial thermometer, it's a sticky back, it'sgot a little dial, you just stick it on the
back of the aquarium and it's going to readyour heat for you. here's another one, it's a little bit bigger, maybe a little bit easierto read, and then there's of course your digital thermometers, which go on the outside of theaquarium and have a probe that'll run inside.
you can move that around to gage differenttemperatures in different areas. the digital thermometers are my particular favorite. don'tuse those lcd ones that stick on the inside or the outside of the aquarium and it's alittle strip that reads off the temperature. very hard to read, and they're very inaccurate.
