New to Pythons

I use 4 zoo meds in my tank. Two on the warm side and two on the cool side, and each read the same on thier respective sides , so as long as they all are reading the same I think I will stay with them. Not saying that their are bad ones, but I think mine are working properly.

You'd be surprised how wrong they can be.....they are not meant to be exact, but in the "general range" of the correct temps....thats NOT good enough if you ask me. I had one that said it was 84 in the tank, but in reality it was 105!!!! That was when I was using a 75 watt heat lamp as heat.....I quickly ditched the thermometer and the heat lamp.

I got my temp gun at ProExotics (online) and my digital thermometer/hygrometer at Bigappleherp.com

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You'd be surprised how wrong they can be.....they are not meant to be exact, but in the "general range" of the correct temps....thats NOT good enough if you ask me. I had one that said it was 84 in the tank, but in reality it was 105!!!! That was when I was using a 75 watt heat lamp as heat.....I quickly ditched the thermometer and the heat lamp.

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Just a suggestion, it would be possible to buy an accurate temp gun AND test your temp range thermometers to see how exact they are, just an idea, if it works well for some then thats great, do whatever works best for you and your healthy herps.

Thats what I did, Rusty. And the Zoo-Med therm. was horribly inaccurate.

Thanks for the information David, hopefully it will help others

No problem!