PitOnTheProwl that really sucks. Oh that poor girl! I'm glad you got her and got her healed up. I hope you lectured the person you got her from. I don't know how people can mistake burns and blisters for a shed. I'm really glad he's healing this fast, I'm ashamed to say the vet said he hasn't seen worse (he's actually seen the same thing a few times) Snakey is almost looking like that on his upper parts, I'm still working on his tail. Thankfully he's pretty even tempered. Did you have any issues with her and scale rot? Or would the SSD and antibiotics keep that at bay? He's not sitting in an overly damp tank or anything, I just don't want something else to happen.

Tbowman, if we decide to go with the UTH route it will definitely have a thermostat to regulate. Even if we go back to the substrate route or stay with newspaper.

Thanks Eric, my husband and I are going to build him an enclosure eventually since he's going to be with us for a long time and if we use a heat pad we will absolutely put a thermostat with it.