Confused!!!

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Originally Posted by Spiritserpents

You want the 85 degree temp to be the temperature that is the closest the snake can get to the heat source.



'Tis not. I give all my adults at least 3 inches so they can burrow as they want. The bottom of the cage where the UTH is is 85 degrees and they go down there after feeding. They *adore* lots of substrate to burrow in, and an inch is not enough to do that with an adult that is 500 grams or more.

For a baby I will use about an inch because, as you said, they are quite slender and it's MUCH easier to find them.

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Let me rephrase, when using a thick substrate people tend to make the top of the substrate where they measure the hot spot, using that method 2 inches as I said would make the bottom of the cage way too hot. Which is why I said measure from the bottom of the cage. The OP is talking about a baby, which is why 2 inches is too much.