beginner, need help

[slickshadowrunner]

Okay thank you. Yeah the hot side around the afternoon time can get as hot as 96 degrees in there, it worries me. I'm gonna go out a buy a controller for him as soon as possible. I thought about it yesterday and checked all the stores around and nobody seems 2 have one. Only online, I'm afraid by the time I get him one, he might die of heat or something

You may be better off building a thermostat yourself instead of ordering one. It'd be faster and likely cheaper. Mine is built from a standard wall outlet dimmer switch and I have a temperature probe wired into it which I have sitting right on the glass of the tank, directly over the UTH hot spot in the hide. Took about 10 minutes to assemble. That being said, my UTH is scratch made from heat tape; I'm not sure how much more difficult it would be to wire a probe and dimmer into a COTS UTH. You'd have to take the wiring partially apart.