Some Questions..

[Craiga 01453]

This is simply dangerous advice. You're going to do what you're going to do, clearly. But sharing techniques/practices that are well known to be dangerous is irresponsible at best and a threat to the well being of your animal and also a potential fire hazard.

^^^^ THIS ^^^^
Advocating practices that are known to be dangerous is extremely irresponsible.

Just because it hasn't happened to you....YET... doesn't mean it's safe advice to share.
That's like a cigarette smoker saying cigarettes are harmless, cause they haven't died...yet.

[vivi]

Key word yet!

Just because you have had no flaws yet, does not mean it has not been proven that there are flaws to that method.

A lot of things in the reptile community are controversial, and some methods work as well as the alternative (example: pvc pipe vs wooden branch) but some methods are just, well, more responsible.

[Midwest]

I have never heard any controversies over keeping a probe outside the tank between the mat and glass. I can't see how anyone would find this practice controversial.

[vivi]

Controversial isn´t the right word...Debatable?

Anyway, probe goes between heat mat and glass. Thats it.

Again, we should leave this thread alone and wait until OP responds, this is about OP and their questions, not a thread discussing where the probe goes because its pretty straightforward.