Quote Originally Posted by jclaiborne View Post
That is not a very accurate way to measure at all. Your hand is not delicate enough to feel the difference between a few degrees. You need to get your hands on an IR thermometer or at the very least a digital thermometer with a probe to measure the actual temp. Odds are that if your TSTAT is regulating to 90ish degrees then you will have a slight heat loss through the plastic, not much, but slight. However I wouldn't bump temps up until you can verify the actual surface temp of the inside of the bin.

On a side note I say the water dish is fine.
perfect.. i do have a digital thermometer with probe .. probe is taped to the inside corner on the hot side.. i could probably move the probe right to the ground where the UTH is and see what it shows.. my TSTAT is set to 33.5 which is about 91.5F so that should be fine.. i'll just leave it there..
now to figure out what kinda of climbing set up i can get going