95 may be a little too hot. Make sure you are taking the temp of the bottom of the tank and not the top of the substrate. It seems like a little thing but it can get too hot at the bottom of the tank where their body often touches due to burrowing and even the action of curling up into a ball inside their hide.

Good for you on having a thermostat and IR gun. As for weird contortions, many times I thought I would have to hold my Monty while he is standing so tall. He also dropped his jumbo F/T mouse into the water dish. He wouldn't grab it from the water, it cooled off too much. I didn't know a snake could give me the evil eye when I took it out.