Quote Originally Posted by Salodin View Post
Don't be discouraged and want to get rid of your baby, you are more then likely doing just fine! Being a few degrees off on one side or the other isn't the end of the world, as long as you generally have a good home for the snake, which it sounds like you do.

Don't worry about your ambient temperatures right now, those are almost always fine when you get your normal gradient going. You have one snake, and are having trouble finding shipping for a thermostat; just don't. A dimmer works fine, you can drive out right now to your local Canadian hardware store and pick one up; it'll probably be near the lighting or electrical section. Plug your UTH to that, and put your UTH outside the enclosure towards one side of the cage. Have your thermometer right in the middle of the UTH, on the inside of the cage, and have your dimmer switch on about 25% and slowly raise it every couple of hours until your thermometer shows that the temp is 90 degrees.

You're going to give yourself a heart attack if you keep stressing like this lol. It is such a simple solution and problem to fix, just calm down and do it.
There you go...Now chill out, get on down to the local hardware store and get the dimmer for the time being. Then take your time finding what you need and who will ship to you...Keeping snakes is not an exact science...You will be fine