Quote Originally Posted by Smichaeleen View Post
This is my tank set up. I have a UTH and the ceramic lamp hooked into a thermostat where I have the sensor under the towel bedding.
Your t-stat probe is supposed to be outside of the tank, sandwiched between the UTH and the underside of the glass. Otherwise your snake can move the probe off of the heat, pee on it, dump his water, etc. which will cause the probe to send a low-temp reading to the t-stat, and then your UTH overheats.