Yeah sorta stole the title from first time herps thread in the general forum, but I was thinking about posting this earlier.

Well, for the past few weeks the temperature has dropped in my room, due to fall and winter weather cooling things down. Which meant my tank went down in temperatures. A bit too much for my liking. For the past few weeks I've had to keep Pelota in her warm side, keeping it at a varying temp of 85-88, hoping she wouldn't venture off to the 70 degree cool side. Well it was fine for a few weeks until the last few nights, she's been going in the cool side. At first I thought "well she knows what she's doing. She should be back in the warm side soon enough". Well around 6am, many hours later, I went up to my room and checked the temps, and the cool side was still at 70 or so, and she was still in there. So I had to get little ice cold Pelota out of the hide and show her to the warm hide.
Of course, I wasn't sure if she likes cool temperatures or what, but I didn't want to take anymore chances, so I decided to move the cool hide near the center of the tank, so it's closer to the heat pad. Then I rearranged the cage a bit around that. Now her warm hide is still the same, but a short bit away from that, in the center of the cage, is the cool side. Then I took the water bowl which was originally in the center of the cage, and put it in the far corner of the previous cool side. I put a bunch of my fake greenery around the bowl so she has some cover, and put some greenage on the hide thats in the middle of the tank for cover so it doesn't look so bare and open. Now last I checked a few hours ago, the temperatures were 88 warm, 80 cool. This should be okay right? The hides don't always have to be across the tank right? As long as she can thermoregulate between hides I hope.

Wish I could take some pictures. Both of the cage and Pelota. Haven't been able to post her yet. She's got such a lovely pattern.