I bought a baby enchi pastel this weekend at the Oaks PA expo.... I also acquired a used 40qt tub, slightly used herpstat 1, and a new large zoomed UTH. the animal seems happy and ate for me the day after i got her....so here goes

I'm trying to get the temps right inside the tub and not endanger the snake etc...I'm new to the UTH since my adult normal is in an enclosure with overhead RHP's regulated by a VE100.

So on the surface of the warm side i'm getting about 82F on top of the cypress mulch (about 1/2 inch thick) with an infrared therm. The herpstat is set at 99F, the temp probe is taped between the tub and the UTH. if i dig down under the bedding im gettung about 90F.

should i continue to raise the thermostat until i get the bedding surface to 90F? or leave it as is and let the snake burrow down until shes warm enough. i have two hides in the tub but shes only seeming to go on the warm side, leading me to think my temps arent high enough.


any help is appreciated