Quote Originally Posted by EntertheWutang View Post
The herpstat thing, is it possible to just use that being that it tells me the temperature and will keep it at the desired temperature? Or is the probe thermometer a thing you must have?
The ideal set up is to have the herpstat's probe sandwiched between the UTH and the outside bottom the the cage. You don't want to put the thermostat probe inside the cage because if the snake moves the probe away from the hot spot the thermostat will run the UTH at full power trying to get the probe to read the set temperature (which is now sitting on the cool side of the cage)

This is where the probed thermometer comes in. it is inside the cage, and is what you measure temperatures with. You use the thermometer to set the thermostat