Quote Originally Posted by ogdentrece View Post
Hmm somehow I cant edit my previous post. Anyway I just wanted to add, if my balls spend all their time in there, then surely it cant be too hot, can it? If somethings burning them, they wont feel it at first but the heat will get in and theyd feel too warm and move to somewhere cooler, but they dont at all. I'm not saying my snakes are getting burnt - they are NOT BURNT. Just giving an extreme example. They just stick their heads out every evening (now and then they would come out for a walk, or slither).
No, just because some snakes will move when its too hot, doesn't mean all of them will. Many will sit there without realizing they are being cooked alive. Thats why you need something like a temp gun, to measure how hot the heat pad actually is, how hot the glass is, and how hot the substrate they are basking on is.

Before I would take the heat pad up to 100 because the substrate wouldn't get hot enough below that. But my BP likes to dig under the thin layer of substrate. He would then be touching the glass that is 100 degree's. So a good rule of thumb is to make sure that glass is not above 95 degrees.