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[Stuart]

You really need to up his temps..that way he can regulate his body temperature..what heating are you using?
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[Stuart]

Obviously then the heat mat isnt sufficient..you need to use a ceramic on a stat or some sort of heat bulb..if the viv floor is wood the heat wont penetrate hardly at all..Yeah switch the light on an maybe move the heat mat up the other end...is the light on a dimmer?

[Stuart]

depends if the heat mat is on a stat..they can get very hot and he may not be comfortable staying on it..I would suggest getting a mat stat at the very least..I use pulse stats on my heat mats and these work well and will control the temps more evenly.

[Stuart]

Your welcome..I would still maybe turn the light on to take the chill off the air temps..do you know what wattage the bulb is?

[Stuart]

Ok let us no know how you get on.

[Scott W]

it's an anerytheristic corn also called a black corn. Good luck with him.
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[Scott W]

the ghost is normally a lot lighter but more importantly is a ghost normally sells for more than a 'black' corn, so if the shop sold it as a black corn they would of lost out on some money (which is unusual for a shop to under price something.....although you can get lucky sometimes).
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[Nerys]

hiya trouble!

you may have sorted this by now, but just in case.... by the way - most of the posters on here live in the UK & its not that cold you great wuss!!!! -8 here the other night, but thats not that bad even!!!!!! congrats on getting your corn, but there are a few things scaring me about it so far...

first off. oh no, another shop who is miss informing about heat mats...

basically, a heat mat, on the surface, can get up to temps of 110f.

a snake will start to suffer brain damage from long term exposure to temps above 90f..

can you see where this is going??

it is essential, IMHO, to use a thermostat AND a thermometer with every heating device, whether a heat mat on a spiders tank, or a ceramic on a boas..

in order to give your pet the right environment, you need to regulate the heat souce, how is that possible when it can only be on, or off?

I have seen people buy a starter kit of a plastic tub, a bowl, a heat mat and a hide, and think thats enough, worse, the shops say its enough too! I have personally been to someone house who had this set up... they thought their snake was too cold, as the thermometer had been stuck half way up the way of the box... (why, when the snake lies on the floor????)

i took round an infrared thermometer, which measures the surface temp of whatever you point it at, and the floor the snake was sat on, measured about 115f.. 25f above safe levels... unfortunately i think the snake latter died...

ok, another thing, please please please put that second hide back in right now!!! they MUST have a choice of hides, one at the cool end, one at the warm end...

as far as bulbs go, its the wattage they are, not the size, that you need to think about... a 25w bulb gives not much heat... a 150w bulb will burn your hand badly.... the heat mat and bulb, if both used, must be at the same end, and the light needs to go off at night... get a timer for that else you have to do it manually..

the more i read what you are writing the more i am hoping you read this asap.... i suspect that with an unregulated heat mat, backed with cork and projecting into a glass bottom viv, that your corn is actually way too hot... if he was too cool, he would sit at the hot end... if he is too warm, he sits at the cold end... well done for qerying that...

ok, heat mats and hands.... what you need to remember here, is that human body temp is higher than the snakes need it so... i can take a reading from my hand, and it shows 92.3f at the moment. all my heat mats are set to a MAX of 88f...

now... if my mat reads 88f and my hand reads 92.3f... then the mat will feel cooler than my hand to the touch.... relative to the temperature of the mat, my hand is naturally warmer, and so the mat feels cooler in relation to that.

your snake is cold blooded and does NOT run at 92.3f, so what he feels is something quite different to what you feel...

please, i'll beg you even, please please get a mat stat, you can get them from under £30 online, don't get them at the pet shop for gods sake..

other than that, yus, looks like an anery to me too... ghosts are made my combining the anery gene, with a hypomalanistic one (that means reduced black) so ghosts are more pinks and greys and silvers, darker than anerys..

also a little suprised, on checking your past posts, to see you replying in this mannor!!!

[goldenburm]

trouble can I ask a small question are u known as gtp on other forums?
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[Nerys]

lost my balls lmao...

nah, just made my points really, think most can see whats what..

black corns sold in pet shops are normally anery corns, they get more money for a ghost..

from breeding my own anerys AND ghosts, i would still say that was an anery, not a ghost... but tbh i don't really give a monkies either way... if you think you know best, then fair enough

Nerys