I've had my pastel for about 3 weeks now. I got it as a hatchling. It has always been really secretive and shy until 3 days ago. I've came home and for the last three days he has been basking on top of his cave. Is he cold? Hot? I'm at 90 warm and 80 ish cold and 55- 60 humidity. He's definitely comfortable now, I've found him snooping around I'm the middle of the night and trying to escape etc. You know, the normal. But I always heard these snakes don't bask. Is this normal? I have a uth set at 89 and a 50 watt light. Uth has a thermostat with a thermometer probe. I've barried the probe under the mulch to get a good reading of temp as well as a close reading so incase it overheats it will be accurate and shut down. Then a thermometer probe mounted about an inch off the ground to get relative humidity of the tank. It's at about 87-90. I also have a great infrared heat gun that measures under his hide at 90 and about 88 everywhere else on the hot side. Except for the direct spot of the bulb can get up to 100 but that's just 1 tiny direct light Ray, like where you can see the light hitting the ground. Anyone have any I ideas on why he's basking? All my equipment is legit, no cheap stuff. This is my first snake. So I'm new to this. But he also hasn't ate yet. I've tried once a week on frozen and live fuzzies. No sign on respiratory infection or mites or any defect. Can someone help me on eating and basking info? He's fed in separate tank with heat as well. This post is more about the basking though