Quote Originally Posted by BCS View Post
I use a digital hydrometer and I check the humidity about twice a week. I have to manually move the hydrometer, which is a bit of a pain but I really do not want to spend $5 x 50 on hydrometers... as for the thermometer I use a temp gun. I simple expense and very accurate and takes a split second to check the temperatures daily. (Doing it this way also means no loose cords (probes) inside my snakes cage that they could possible wrap themselves in). Again it is totally up to you how you want to monitor these types of things.
Thanks for all the info, man! So I went out and bought an IR temp gun (my guess is that substrate temp is more important than air temp, so I figured I'd grab one), but I also bought an acurite thermometer/hygrometer. I figured I might as well get one that did both since the thermo/hygrometers I have now are analog and apparently don't work well. Both analog thermo/hygrometers in my tank were reading between 50-60% humidity, I threw that acurite in there and it said I was around 70%. This made me worried for 2 reasons: 1) either my analogs were wrong this whole time and I've had my humidity way too high, or 2) my acurite is broken and I'm about to screw up my humidity. I'm going to trust the acurite for now, but any recommendations on a solid digital hygrometer? I figure I'll buy a couple of very precise hygrometers so that way I know I'm getting the correct humidity (apparently acurites are notorious for have incorrect humidities. Temps are apparently almost always spot on, though).

Also, I got myself a hydrofarm, and I'm gunna set it up with a zoo med UTH. Even thought the UTH has a sticky part that is meant to stick the pad to the glass, can I still put the probe between the pad and glass, or is there a better method?

Oh, also, the acurite I bought measures surrounding air temp (I placed it on the cool side), as well as it has a probe that I was going to stick underneath the substrate above the UTH pad to measure that temp of the bedding beneath his warm hide. Should I get another thermometer to measure air temp on the warm side, or is keeping the substrate temp in check enough? Thanks again!