Quote Originally Posted by Inknsteel View Post
I'm shocked that nobody mentioned or addressed the glaringly obvious problem here... ANY heat source you are running NEEDS to be regulated. Period.
That's hitting the nail on the head. Unfortunately neither the reptile "expert" at the pet store, nor the packaging/instructions mentioned that. It just says that its safe for your snake as long as you put some sort of substrate down, which is just flat out wrong.

The lamps have rheostats (dimmers) built in. The UTH does not. Well I scoured the city and managed to find a rheostat for the UTH. A medium setting shoots up to to over 100! I've got it adjusted down to 92 now (temp on the glass under the substrate). I also found at another pet store, a thermostat that controls 2 devices so I'm using that for the lamps to come on and off.