I never even knew timex made a themometer. I use the uhh zilla one from petsmart, it's like $20 I believe and it measures humidity and temp, and I find it to be accurate, and it gets wet from me misting the tank so it long it doesn't get soaked. Then I recall saying that walmart has some, not sure where/what type though. Sorry to hear that happened, it could of been worse though. I remember a guy saying he lost one of his snakes because of a t-stat malfunction.