Where to place the thermostat probe

[NH93]

What happens when the snake tips the water bowl onto it? The bread clip could be knocked off too, thats certainly not fool proof. I just feel that its a lot safer to keep it outside of the enclosure where the snake cant mess with it at all. If its outside the enclosure then the only way it can be messed with is by me. That tubing would also be a spot where snake piss or crap could get in and have to be cleaned or replaced. I just personally feel like its a lot of extra effort you're going to with no real benefit.

You should have a water bowl heavy enough that it doesn't get tipped I personally like Rickey's idea. It's very creative, although I can't see myself being so outgoing, LOL!

I have my probes on the inside - I don't find anything "wrong" about putting it on the outside, I just didn't hear about doing it that way until after I had mine all set up! But then I do think that the temperature could be a little off, since that is not where the snakes are. I also don't know how heat transfers through glass, so maybe it wouldn't even matgter.

I personally use painter's tape for the probes in both my snake's vives. I initially thought the substrate would maybe get under the tape and cause it to come unstuck, but so far it hasn't and I've been using the tape for a couple of months. To be fair my ball python doesn't dig too far under the substrate because there is a hide directly overtop it where he just hangs out, but my corn has not knocked hers off at all.
I also don't place the water bowls near the probes, just in case something were to happen when I was gone (thermostat malfunction) and the snakes needed a cool place to go, the water bowl is on the other side.


EDIT: After reading about a poster's snake who "floods the vive with urine", I would agree that where you place the probe will depend on the snake! That's a bit concerning though... I've never had a snake defecate so much at once that it didn't get soaked into the substrate...