RIP all....

[Cyberduke]

Hi, I just lost almost all my snakes due to a thermostat that didn't switch off. i had troubled with it not switching off when i got the thermo but a change of heater and another change to the setup as suggested by my uncle witch is an ecetric electronic engeneer and all was good for a month. Until today.

We came into the house imediatly smelling something dead. We started searching and found the source of the smell at the snake room... The heat was so intense my one corn snake burst open and some of the ather blew up quite big. (2x their size). The list of snakes i lost is:

0.1 Het albino Ball phython. just got at the previus expo from royal designer reptiles.
1.1 Ball phytons- the female weighing at 950grams.
0.1 Albino corns
1.1 Normal corns

I am pretty heartbroken.....

[Ales]

How is it possible that the tanks even got that hot?

Sorry to hear about your loss.

[Cyberduke]

it was in a racking system. When i got there the temp sayed 47 in the room, the thermos's high temp alarm was going off but it showed it was still heating.

[wickedexotix]

What thermostat were you using

[Cyberduke]

it is a tc-200 elite temp thermostat

[Nzyme]

What heat sources did you use?

The amount of heat you are talking about is immense did you have the entire tub heated or only a side?

[Nzyme]

And how long ago did you check on them? it sounds like the damage was done over days!

[chris w]

Something like this happened to me a while back, the thermostat was reading 29 but the tubs were looking steamy and all the snakes were sitting on the cool side, tapped the thermostat and suddenly it was reading 52 and then the alarm went off, managed to catch it and disconnect it in time.

[Cyberduke]

@Nzyme - I will post all that tomorrow afternoon as i am going to study then sleep now. As it happens I checked on them last night and all was fine. It was on the most 24hours.

[it_bit_me]

As an precaution I don't use cable that can go that high. Sadly I just bought 2 TC-200 units ,I'm in doubt whether I'll use them.

[SABOAMAN]

Sorry about your loss

[Blake]

Sorry about your loss man.

[insaniac]

Sorry to hear..

Technology is a friend and foe all at once..

[Izzy]

Always an element of risk with these things although you hope it never happens, sorry to hear of your loss.

[Unforgiven]

It's always a good idea to have a backup thermostat and a cable that won't reach those kinds if temps.

I am sorry to hear about what happened! Good thing the expo is just around the corner