My BP keeps moving to the cold side???

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Originally Posted by mikesmelly

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That's on the high end. I set mine so the tub bottoms are usually 87F to 88F. There's some substrate on top of that. If they want it warmer they burrow, but most of the time, they don't have anywhere where it gets over 88F or 89F.

Try moving the thermometer to each end for a while and see what the temps are at both ends. Measure an inch off the ground rather than 2/3 down the side, too.

It still sounds to me like it's too hot for her on that side.

If your temps are in fact all good, you can try throwing some more clutter on the warm side. I know you just switched hides, but that side does look more open in general than the cool side.

I agree with what is being said about your hotspot temp. The max you want is 90 on the inside of the glass. Don't check temps on the substrate. If they want more heat they will push it to the side. With that being said your snake may just want/need to be cooler. Mine bounce back and forth and are usually not on the heat for long periods unless they just ate.

Interesting. My boy was doing that and then I discovered that he really just preferred the hide on the cooler side. I switched them and now he moves back and forth more consistently.

Neat setup. Maybe it's because the skull hide has so many openings.

My young male will lay on the slate I have under the RHP but only like a day and a half after he eats for a little while, that surface is 88 degrees Fahrenheit on that slate (young small male I keep it a little cooler), the top of his hide is 90F (closer to RHP). His ambient tems are 79-84 from cool to hot. When he is going into shed,or little after a shed, he acts weird for a while, they don't have the same patterns or mood.....after that all passes, mine go back to mostly hanging on the warm side during the day and explores for a while when I get home from work. Once in a while he will stay on the cool side but not as much (very rarely). I don't have a UTH heating up the floor of his hide...just the slate gets up to "hot spot" temp because it's dark and its absorbing heat from the RHP above it like the sun. Inside his hide is basically ambient air temps in the low 80's.

To the oP...it sounds like too much heat is building up inside his hide. If it's a young snake try lowering it a little.