Weird how your posts are doubling up.

What's nice is with the temperature gradient, your snake will show you what range it likes. My hotspot is set to 90, but sometimes when the RHPs are working hard top keep the ambient up around 80, the hotspot will get up to 94 or 95 or so. Every time I've seen that I've also seen both my snakes move on over to their cooler hide, where the temp is more around 80, so I know that 95 is more than either of my snakes wants to be on.

It's actually an odd issue I've been trying to solve. If I turn my hotspot temp down from 90, then when the RHPs turn off it will get too cool. Still trying to figure it out.

Anyways, most advice on here is good. If it isn't, it gets called out pretty quick. It's been a great resource for me getting started with BPs!