I do not use a thermostat I have one just never took it out of the package because my temps stay the same. when I mean I measure the floor temps, I place the the probe under the substrate (news paper). directly over the heating pad a put a thick layer of news paper so the temps are a bit lower directly onOriginally Posted by LGray23
my digital probe is accurate (I get all my thermometers tested once a month, because as the batteries ware out they loose accuracy). How ever I have been searching for temp guns and I couldn't find one (I tried Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, and a few other hard ware and pet stores with no luck). I found a nice one for about $25 on Amazon that also reads in a matter of seconds, It does humidity, berimatric, and temps (with a laser). It does take my digital therms about five minutes to register completely so It takes me nearly an hour to check all my temps for three snakes, and I check it on a daily to every other day basis.
For Gracin though I have a human heating pad under his tank. It had the control on the cord and cut off after an hour and played around with it and took the control off and spliced the cord back together. It got hot but not hotter then 95 I ended up having to use towels for insalation under it to get the temps to stay. Then at first the temp on it shot up to about 120. I figured out the extra padding when I had a Candy in a glass tank she had borrowed in the aspen right on top of the heating pad (this was before I knew about thermostats) and it read at 130 degrees. I mean I actually got a little burn from touching the glass, and figured if a heat rock isn't safe neither is that hot glass.
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