HELP! Ball Python Care Question

I have a glass tank as well -- it sounds like your on the right track. My cool side was getting cool like yours was/isl, so I added a second smaller UTH to the 'cool side'

I have a Hydrometer Thermostat set on each UTH, with one keeping the hot side at 90, and the other side in the low 80s. My only 'above' heat source is a 50 watt 'night' bulb that I have running 24/7. This keeps the ambient air in the 80s.

As suggested, if you find the fogger is messing with your temps too much, it might be worth seeing if you can return it and putting foil over the top with some moss in the tank (along with a big water bowl) to keep up the humidity.

My two cents!

I think something is off here if you're saying your ambient temps get up to 88. That's too high for ambient. You want to shoot for around 80 ambient temp, with a 90ish degree hot spot. If the ambient temps are 88, your snake will not have anywhere to escape the heat to cool down.

What kind of substrate do you have?
When I couldn't regulate my humidity properly I covered half the tank with tinfoil tape and changed the substrate.
I also put moss on the bottom of her cool hide and moss in front of her warm hide
(It was on the bottom but her hide is big and she dug up the moss to cover the entrance of the hide... security I guess)
And for heat I would put another uth on the other side or my one friend put a uth on the side of the tank.
He said it keeps his ambient temps up but I dont do that so dont quote me.

If you put the moss in the hides you dont have to worry about keeping the humidity throughout the tank up. The humidit will be high in the hides. Just go through and give em a good spray until the moss is moist. I use dead sphagnum moss but you can use real live moss... or artificial moss mats.

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Originally Posted by HardCorps2004

The probe is laying on top of the substrate

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IF you are getting 84 degrees on top of the cypress, depending on how thick it is would be willing to bet that mat is over 95 degrees.
You need to properly regulate you mat and work on raising ambient temps in the room.
Heat mats are not to heat the air, they are only to serve as a warm spot for your snake to lay and you don't want any area they can touch too hot.

I'm gonna go with the idea of bumping the heat up in the room. That's my next option. Things are starting to get better as I monitor and make adjustments. Thank you so much for your knowledge and advice.