Quote Originally Posted by 200xth View Post
A pillow is getting to peed and pooped on and be a pain to keep clean. You'll be throwing it out within a couple of weeks.

How are you measuring your temps? If your BP refuses to go into the hides, there's a decent chance the temps are not what you think they are on the ground where he makes contact. If you have a temp gun check the temps inside his hides using that. If you don't have a temp gun, you might want to consider one, it will save you a lot of time troubleshooting temperature related environment issues.
Well I've only had him about a day and a half now and over night he knocked my probe thermometer into his water dish so we were using that to verify the temp of the UTH (I also have a thermostat regulating that) and the cool end was a little cooler than I'd like when we were last able to check it before the drowning of my thermometer.. as for the bigger hide we are currently also working on getting him a larger tank because I feel he does not have enough room in his current setting with the water dish and hide theres not much room to wiggle around and I also feel that he's stressed due to the new setting.