Quote Originally Posted by Amberlove View Post
Ok so I set my room up today with thermometers in the room as well as in the cages. The only animals in the room are my ball pythons now. I moved my tortoise to my bedroom because she's a greek and with her MVB it would make it to hot for her in there. I should have mentioned that my a.c. unit stays between 80-85 because I can't handle cold temps. (I'm a T-10 paraplegic and have never really been able to keep my body heat even before my accident). I have a ceramic space heater with a built in thermostat but I'm not really having to run it right now. With the vent shut off and the window insulated the ambient temp is staying around 85. The whole reason I wanted to do this is because my male bp is kind of dumb. He will bury up at the hot spot and just lay on the glass on top of the UTH until he gets a burn (this has happened once because I wasn't home and the person snake sitting for me didn't check every hour to make sure he wasn't buried.) I don't want to have to worry that he will be stupid and burn himself again, my girls have never buried and so don't have this problem with them but if I'm trying to fix it with him might as well do it with all of them. Plus gives me something to do with that empty room. Thanks for all the input, I'm going to keep a very close eye on the room for the next several days to see if I need to tweak anything.

On a side note I didn't get a Hog Island, I ended up getting this very sweet Dumeril Boa instead (I will post pics on a new thread).
Before anybody else jumps in and says anything rude I'll say it nicely.

If your UTH is hot enough to cause a burn on your snake then you have it set way to hot. What I would do if I had an UTH on an aquarium for a BP is keep a shallow bit of aspen so that way the heat gets through easier and doesn't have to be hotter, then he may not push all of the shavings out of the way. I still have almost all of my bp's do this.

My bee is the biggest one taht will do it, but my black pastel & spider do it as well. I haven't had an issue with any other ones doing it as of yet. Just a thought for measure.