I just have too much free time this summer, so I hang out and say what I think the more experienced people will say. If I've butchered advice and made things more complicated, I'm sorry to whomever that may effect. If it's made the senior members' jobs harder or newbies' learning more confusing, I apologize because that's what I feel I may have done here. I figured nothing happens here at night and I could help out.
If you haven't already stuck the heating pad to the tank, put the thermostat probe between the pad and the tank and don't use the stickiness--use tape so you can easily remove it and reuse it. If you have, removing it can damage it, so let it be and tape the probe to the outside of it. Use whatever tape you can, but in the long term, foil tape has been said to be the only that doesn't lose it's sticky because of the heat.
Everyone says don't handle them at all until they've eaten for you a few times. I'm not going to tell you that any amount of handling is ok right now because I really don't think it is. It's what I've been told by more experienced people than I, and it makes sense for wild animals that don't socialize with humans normally. Dogs are domestic. Cats are domestic. We've been living with them and they us for thousands of years. Humans have never lived with snakes.
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