I set up a tank with a hide and the hot end thermometer probe under it and tinkered with it until I got about 90F reading on there and when it was steady I put the snake in.
When I checked back later, the temperature reading was 99F!! I thought the heat tape or thermostat malfunctioned but it didn't. The snake was content hiding in the hide curled up over the thermometer probe. I do notice that the temperatures rise in my other snake enclosure when she goes on top of the probe too, but that one chooses usually to sit in another corner of the hot end and it hadn't affected things that much.
I removed the snake and left the tank there as before and within a minute the temperature reading starts falling. Within 10 mins it is back to 89 - 90F.
So what am I to do? Is it supposed to be 89- 90 F or so in the hide WITHOUT the snake coiled in it? Or with? I wouldn't worry if the temp was like just 3 degrees over because the snake was there, but 10 degree difference? What am I to do now?
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