Temperature question

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Both the surface temps are important as well as the ambient air temp.

The surface temp bumps the core temp. The ambient air temp is the base temp. Snakes have a large lung and a small (most anyway balls do) the lung like all the organs is long and skinny. The liver and arteries run past the lung the heart and spleen are at the top and bottom of the lung. The temp of the air in the lung will effect the core temp of the snake.

Ok so next question, where would the temperature probe be best placed?

I currently have a temp probe measuring air temperature on the warm side, and a second temp probe measuring air temp on the cool side. But now I wonder if I should be measuring substrate temperature instead? I do have a thermostat on the heat pad, but the actual temperature the snakes will be sitting on would differ from the heat registered directly from the heat pad, so that isn't an accurate way of measuring substrate temperature.