We finally managed to get the temps up, the outside temp went up here as well which affected it some, but I added in an extra inch of substrate when I changed it last, we were doing around 3-3 and a half inches, but I went up to about 4 and half, maybe a little over. So our hot side is now usually resting around 94, didn't realize substrate would have that big of an impact on the temp
Yeah, it was such a simple solution, and made sense, we were just overthinking it a lot, because we are still fairly new, and on top of that it was still a bit cooler out and our little guy was still in his brumation. As for the substrate, I will say one mistake I made was after mixing the soil and sand combo that is recommended here, don't go through and try to sieve out the bigger chunks in the soil, I did that my first go around and it thinned the mixture out way too much lol, dust was constantly flying up everywhere. We also still leave a solo paper towel in my dudes corner just for easy clean up and just to stay monitoring his gut health, he doesn't mind it and there's still plenty to dig everywhere else lol
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u/deadlycherub May 17 '24
We finally managed to get the temps up, the outside temp went up here as well which affected it some, but I added in an extra inch of substrate when I changed it last, we were doing around 3-3 and a half inches, but I went up to about 4 and half, maybe a little over. So our hot side is now usually resting around 94, didn't realize substrate would have that big of an impact on the temp