Quote Originally Posted by mattchibi View Post
Hey there,

Sorry for nit-picking but I noticed a few things that you said. If your thermostat is reading 93, but your thermometer is measuring a 97-98 F temp, then you may have your thermostat probe in the wrong place. Is it right in the centre of the glass, directly above the UTH? The thermostat probe should be in the hottest possible spot on top of the UTH and under the substrate.

As for you having to "get the clips out": You NEED to have these on at all times. For ANY non-locking lid, I would always use clips in combination with a heavy weight (textbooks) on top of the lid to ensure that at all times, my snake cannot escape. Aside from sickness and disease, there isn't much that is worse than a lost ball python. Please do your snake a favour and make sure the lid is secure at all times as they are natural escape artists.

And like others have said, she may just be hungry. Is she roaming her tank during the day as well? Or just at night? Just keep offering an appropriately sized meal every 7 days and make sure husbandry is correct, and she'll be a happy snake. Good luck, hope she settles down soon!
Does the thermostat probe need to be in the cage? Oo? It's not on top of the heat pad, it's right under it between the cardboard regulator(I have a tub) and the heat pad. So it goes from bottom to top: Cardboard-tstatprobe-heatpad-tub.
should I have it: cardboard-heatpad-tstatprobe-tub?
I don't have the thermometer probe on the heat pad, since I'm using a temp gun to measure the temp of the heat pad.
The lid does lock onto the tub, she was just pushing extra hard, but I don't think she would have been able to get out.
She was just roaming last night, all night. She wasn't roaming the days before, but she was sitting with her head out like she normally does when hungry.
So I suppose she's just hungry. XD