I got my thermostat in the mail today so I could use my heating pad. I have the thermostat probe foil taped(tape on the wire not the probe) to the bottom of the warm side of the tank with the heating pad centered over top of the probe. Then I have the probe for my thermometer directly on the glass underneath the substrate over the middle of the heat mat. The thermostat is reading 98-100 and the thermometer is only reading 77-78??? That doesn't seem normal to me. I know there's nothing wrong with the thermometer, plus the thermometer on the cool side is only reading 73 ambient temp.

The heating pad is the one that came with the 10 gal basic tropical kit from Petsmart
http://www.petsmart.com/reptile/terr...6-catid-500028

My thermostat
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...f_rd_i=desktop

Probe thermometer
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1718441...lpid=82&chn=ps