Without pics its tough to tell how you have it set up, but here is what I do. I have the thermostat probe poked through the back of the tank, like if you stuck your finger through...centered side to side with the RHP, about 6" off the floor. Thermostat set at 83 gives me hot spot of around 90 and ambients of around 80ish. Substrate will impact ambients. Directly under RHP will be hottest spot. Just temp gun hot spot to fine tune thermostat sweet spot.
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