Temperature/humidity worries

[The Serpent Merchant]

That's what I was afraid of. I turned off the red bulb for the night and left just the 75watt black and UTH. The lights are not sitting on the lid, they are hanging about 2 inches above it. I'm using a dual thermometer/hydrometer by Zoomed but I wasn't really sure where to put the probe. I didn't think it could go under the substrate to test the hotspot so I suctioned it on the wall as close to the bottom as possible. But this seems to be not nearly accurate enough. Is there a different approach to testing temps or placing probes that I should try? I've seen people here suggest the Walmart therm/hydrometer and I can go get one if it would be more accurate than what I'm using.

I have some moss right in front of his hide but if it's safe I can put some in his hide too. I had a feeling that the super hot bulbs were more of the culprit of zapping all the humidity so I wanted to make sure I got the balance right.

When using UTH's your thermometer probe needs to be under the substrate on the floor of the cage directly over the UTH. (No suction cups) The substrate layer needs to be thin, 1/2" thick or less.

Do you have a thermostat for your UTH?

There really isn't any reason to use both a red and black light bulb on the same cage. Either can be left on 24/7 without any issue.