Quote Originally Posted by Cornishninja View Post
Update.

Okay, after a couple of days of careful measuring and adjusting, I've got the temperatures balanced healthily at the ones recommended by you guys, and the snake seems to be moving back and forth between cool and hotspots again as he/she was before. So I guess everything is alright now!

Thanks so much! I'll be hanging around in the future, learned a ton of new stuff already just from reading around, so I'll be sticking around to learn more!

and to Mhavens, I don't mind you getting in on the thread at all I hope you can get your query solved too!
Cornishninja are you measuring the surface temperature or the glass temp under the substrate? Also what kind of substrate are you using?

To everyone else. Is setting the thermostat to 98 too high? I took the thermostat probe out of the tank and mounted it to the backside of the UTH. I hot glued a thermometer probe to the glass above the UTH and it reads about 94-95. I have about a half inch of cypress substrate. I measured the surface temp with an IR thermometer and it reads about 81-82. My fear is if I thin the substrate and raise the thermostat tempurature he may burrow down and get burned.