My two baby Tarahumara Mountain Boas are still in quarantine, being kept in Sterilite tubs on a wire metal shelf with an Ultratherm UTH connected to a JumpStart thermostat set to 92F for the hot spot. Ambient room temp is 78.

This morning when I was checking temps, the thermostat was reading 71F, and the UTH was reading 104 as measured with a temp gun. Also, the UTH is now all black as opposed to showing the typical black striped appearance. It isn't burned. It's just pure black.

Thank heaven I had recently ordered a couple of Herpstats to start to replace my remaining JumpStarts. I still have a few young snakes in Sterilite tubs + Ultratherms, so I'll be able to shuffle enclosures around a bit and use a big Ultratherm connected to a Herpstat and shared between the two bins for the quarantined babies.

I'm assuming a thermostat failure. My question is whether I'm correct in assuming that the Ultratherm is ruined. I've never seen anything like this before.[IMG][/IMG]