Hi everyone. I am new to the forum, this is my first post.

I will be getting my first bp shortly, but first I want to make sure everything is on working order. I’ve set up a 15 qts tub with two hides touching all sides of the hatchling and a water bowl in the middle, I use paper towels as substrate and I am planning on switching to regular newspaper once I’m 100% sure there are no mites. I have a UTH on the hot side connected to a thermostat and a digital thermometer/hygrometer to monitor the temps.

After being connected over 48 hours, I easily reached 94 F in the hot side, but the cold side stayed extremely cold: around 67 F (it was 57 F outside). Is this even possible? How can the hot side be so hot and the cold side so cold? I’ve checked the thermometer and it works perfectly. Also, the humidity is way too high, over 80% (I live in a very humid place). I though that perhaps I had made too many holes, so I covered some of them and the temperature improved, but the humidity increased even more. Same thing happened when I covered half the tub with tin foil. I know I could get this fixed by buying a second UTH and a second thermostat, but is there a way around this? I decided to post after searching for answers online and on this forum and doing everything that was suggested to other posters.

Any ideas will be welcomed with open arms!

Thanks in advance