So, being that this gal is a month old and still small, I took incoming advice and put her in a smaller 6qt. tub. And, I placed the tub inside the AP T8 enclosure. Being that the tub is so small (11 in. length) hi/low/gradients are not that easy to fully segregate. Here's how it looks...


So...there's two probes inside that tub. The left side (cool side) has the probe from the Herpstat, and that controls the RHP you see on the top. The right side (warm side) has an Acurite temp probe, and that's the 81 deg. you're seeing in this pic. I dropped the temps down a bit because a few people said temps should be cooler for a kingsnake.


So... I have the probe on the left set to 78 deg. But, with the tub being so short, its hard to really separate the temps. So, whatever the cool side is (what I use for setting the Herpstat), the warm side is about 3 degrees warmer. So, in the pic, you see 81 deg. on the right side (warm side), and the left side (cool side) is 78 deg.

Questions...

1. Being that the gradient is not much of a gradient afterall, are these temps fine, or should I raise it? Is it more important to have the warmer temps, or the cooler temps? cause, if I bring the warm side up to 85, the cool side will be about 82. Or, if I make the cool side a nice 75 deg, the warm side will only get to about 78.

2. There's a night mode on the Herpstat, that allows me to use different temps for night vs. day. I'm not using it, but I could if it would help. Opinions?

3. Am I overthinking it? Or, should I just leave it be? Or, with just a 3 deg. difference from cool and warm side, what's the best temps to use?