Temperature Question For A RUB & First Time BP Owner

[Seviper]

No that will be ok. As long as your cool side is 78-82 everything else sounds ok. Also you could try putting the probe flat on the paper towel to see what I reads. Also your snake is laying on the paper towel therefore putting pressure on the tub which means it will be hotter with his weight on it. I'm not sure if I'm explaining it good enough. Its like if you lay your hand on a hot pan on the stove and it feels hot but if you press on the hot pan it will feel and be hotter, same thing with your snake laying on its hot spot. Please don't try to test my theory of hand on pan on stove lol jut take my word for it! A way to test this though is take your thermometer probe and lay it directly flat on paper towel and then find something heavyish that is the size of the probe or bigger and set it on the probe and you should see the temp go up.

No, that makes perfect sense. I'll go ahead and place my palm on the hot stove right now!... Nah just kidding. I left the temperature probe in precisely the same spot and it's gone up to 88.2F and the humidity is sitting at 60%, with the probe beneath the paper towels, I hit max of 93.4F, so with the snake's weight I'd imagine it would be a little over 94F if he went beneath the paper towel. Thanks so much dude. It means a lot. : ) I'd have to ask to borrow my uncle's soldering iron again before I could test the temp on the cool end, but with the heat mat being beneath around one third of the RUB, at the right temperature, I would assume the cool end would actually be around the 78-82F range.