Temperature Scare

[BPGator]

I went down to check on the snakes this morning and I found the temperature in one tub reading 126°! Needless to say I immediately pulled the tub to check on him. He looked perfectly fine. All other gauges looked fine too. I found the probe with the high reading in his water bowl (126°F and 99% humidity). Needless to say my heart skipped a beat. This is a good reminder as to why you never put a thermostat probe in a tub. This was my probe for ambient air/humidity only.


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[Coluber42]

We have one of those Acurite weather stations that has a bunch of various other sensors that you can put different places and check them all from an app on your phone, and one of the sensors is in my BP's cage (it's not the only thermometer in there, there's a standalone unit thaat predates it). At one point for some unknown reason, that sensor registered a temperature of 350 degrees, I kid you not. Obviously there is nothing in there that could possibly reach that temperature, and the sensor hangs from a platform at about mid-height, so it didn't fall in the water dish or anything. It just decided to show me 350 degrees momentarily for no apparent reason.
Other than that one reading, everything was totally fine, but I definitely had a "holy !@#$!!" moment when I saw it!

[polychromator]

We have one of those Acurite weather stations that has a bunch of various other sensors that you can put different places and check them all from an app on your phone, and one of the sensors is in my BP's cage (it's not the only thermometer in there, there's a standalone unit thaat predates it). At one point for some unknown reason, that sensor registered a temperature of 350 degrees, I kid you not. Obviously there is nothing in there that could possibly reach that temperature, and the sensor hangs from a platform at about mid-height, so it didn't fall in the water dish or anything. It just decided to show me 350 degrees momentarily for no apparent reason.
Other than that one reading, everything was totally fine, but I definitely had a "holy !@#$!!" moment when I saw it!

I've been hoping to get one of the sensors you can check from your phone - I'm such a worrier, and when I work longer days it'd've give me such piece of mind. Glad to know I'm not the only one with that solution!