Bumping up heat on cool side?

[PitOnTheProwl]

What are you using for bedding?
What are you using to measure your temps?
How are you regulating your heat source?
What surface are you getting your temp reading off of? (top of bedding or underneath)

[Abdul]

1. Cypress Mulch with a little Coconut Husk.
2. Currently using my thermometer with probe, not a stick on. Bought a faulty thermostat, returning it and buying a new one after work tomorrow.
3. Was using my thermostat that suddenly went out. So I'm manually using my thermometer with a probe.
4. Probe is currently under bedding. I read that the cool side usually takes on room temp, and it's quite hot in Wisconsin today. My room is about 83º.

**Have two thermometers with probes measuring both sides.
**Warm side is currently at 89º now.
**While I'm gone at work, I have someone checking on the temps so he is safe from getting too cool or too hot.

[Abdul]

He's been behaving quite well. Very responsive to me and ate his first time home. I see him very rarely (during the day at least; the next morning I see things around his enclosure moved around during the night) and he switches sides whenever he wants.

[PitOnTheProwl]

3. Was using my thermostat that suddenly went out. So I'm manually using my thermometer with a probe.

Could be why he is staying on the cool side more............... you cannot control a heat mat that can get over 120 degrees in less than 10 mins without a stat.