Temperature on top of substrate..

You could switch to newspaper as a substrate. It conducts heat great. :)

I have my probes reading the temps of the bottom of the tub. It seems that no matter what I do with the aspen, they will always move it around to the sides of their hide and their body will be in direct contact with the bottom.

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

I have my probes reading the temps of the bottom of the tub. It seems that no matter what I do with the aspen, they will always move it around to the sides of their hide and their body will be in direct contact with the bottom.

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Mine too. He usually pushes the aspen out of the hide through the hole. It is rather funny acutally -- he builds up a big mound right in front of his entrance. And the bare tub is where he likes it. Sometimes I wonder why I put the aspen in at all.

Well I went through and removed alot of repti-bark on the warm side. And left a good layer of it on the cool side. I was using a different probe to measure the cool side and just layed the probe on the substrate, and then I started wondering why I put bedding ontop of the warm side probe.. ahh well.. Will have to see what happens!

Going to see how the surface temperature changes, or if it even does.

Thanks guys for the fast replies.

Hmm.. I think the accurite thermometer thats actually on the bottom of the unit is different then the actual probe. I attached the probe to the bottom of the glass and then just set the actual accurite unit ontop of the glass right beside the probe and got two different readings..

Not sure how this should go?

Hi,

The normal procedure is to place the base unit on the cool side of the tank at ground level to get an idea of the ambients and the relative humidity and the probe can be placed at various points for checking spot temps.

Normally I measure the temp inside the cool hide, inside the hot hide on top of the substrate and in the hot hide underthe substrate - I normally just put the probe in on top of the bedding and adjust things till that reads around 90-93f then ,once that's steady, bury the probe untill its against the glass bottom and check it isn't too hot.

If it has to be over 95f on the glass to get the correct temps in the hide I thin out the substrate until that is no longer the case.

Now that's just the way I do it - I'm sure others will chime in with their recomendations.:)


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