Hello. I don't know if its because its late or I'm a little slow but I have a question. Right now I am using paper towels as substrate. It's not a big deal I guess. Doesn't look nice or anything. It does its job. Whenever I look on threads I see people using aspen or other kinds of wood and it looks much nicer and I've heard it's easier to keep clean. I'm looking to maybe make the switch to aspen.

My question is about heat. With the paper towels, I just point my temp gun at the towel and it says 90 and I'm like happy days! With aspen the temp would be different because the aspen is thicker than paper towel. So do I adjust the temperature up to compensate for the thickness? Or do I leave it where it is because the bottom of the bin will still be 90 like it was with the paper towel and the snake will "nest" in the aspen and get closer to the heat tape? I hope that makes sense.

Also if you could give me some pros and cons of using wood as opposed to paper towels, that would be awesome! Thanks guys/gals