Heating problems

I'm having problems heating my enclosure. So I'm new to ball pythons I'll be getting one in about 2 weeks, but I cant seem to get the temperatures right. I have an ipower reptile heating mat hooked up to a century thermostat, and I'm using a tub enclosure. Using my temp gun the tub will read around 92-95 but the substrate will be like 78-82. I only have maybe half an inch of zoo-med forest floor substrate. Also the heating mat is under the left side of the tub with the thermostat prob being between the heat mat and the tub. I need help!

You want the bottom of the tub to be 88-90°, not the substrate above it. The snake will push bedding out of its way to reach the heat it wants.


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Oh okay. Thanks so much for the help

No problem. You’ll just lower the temps til the bottom of the tub is reading 88-90°. Cool end of the tub should be about 10° cooler than the hot spot


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Also should have mentioned, kudos to you for working on getting the enclosure set up well in advance of acquiring the animal.


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Yeah I wanted to make sure that she would be 100% comfortable when I do get her

I've got similar setups for mine and can't get them to temp at all.

Century digital t-stat from Amazon?


Maybe if I had one for each tub I'd be doing better, but since I've got 7 now I went ahead and got flexwatt and VE-200.