Literally I’m so frustrated! I finally got my temperatures right. I keep 81-82 Ambient on the warm side with a 88-90 hot spot. 79-80 Ambient on the cool side with 78-80 substrate temp in the cool hide. I just got new hides. They’re the black hides with only one opening. I wake up this morning and do my daily IR gun temp check. My warm hide was 92.5!? And my cool hide was 81.7!? Wtf is going on!!! Do some hides “trap” more heat? I am just so beyond frustrated. My heat mat is controlled by a thermostat. I have it set for 92 which kept the glass at 90. It’s been that way for over a month. All of a sudden I woke up to that. It has to be the hides! Nothing else changed. Well that was an easy fix. Dropped the temp down and now it’s fine. Now my cool side is what I’m worried about. How do I manage to keep the ambient temperature up on the cool
side without it effecting my hide temp? I mean 78-79 ambient and I’m getting 81.7 inside the hide with the IR gun. It worries me to drop it down to 77F on the thermostat because at night my temp in my snake room
starts to drop and it effects my enclosure.