I knew that a back up thermostat was a good idea, but just had never really "gotten around" to it. I guess I really just thought, my herpstat won't fail me, I'll get around to it when I do...

Well, this morning I woke up and went to check on the snakes before I head off to work like I always do. Every single one in the ball rack was pressed up against the front of the tub. I think "Hmmmmm, that's weird...". Then I see the thermometer and it's reading 116.2!!!!! I immediately unplugged the flexwatt and tried to figure out what went wrong.

Turns out the probe had come unattached and was no where near where it needed to be. The thermostat was just fine, but because of the probe being moved, it was running the flexwatt at full force!

All the snakes seem to be just fine; it happened during the night as they were fine when I went to bed. But I nearly had a heart attack this morning.

Anyways, just ordered a Ranco for a back up. Lesson of the day is get a back up thermostat! Learn from my mistake!! I don't want to think what could have happened had I been on vacation or something and this went on for several days.