I'm sorry if I came off as rude as well, I wasn't trying to be. So many times people want to jump right on assist feeding when they have not taken other steps first but since you are working with a local breeder I will trust he told you to do this with good reasoning. Again my apologies.
Is your uth regulated by a thermostat or something? When you get the ir thermometer take the temp under the substrate on top of glass right where the uth is and if it is above 94 unplug it unless you have a thermostat or something to regulate temp then just drop it down. The reason you want to take the temp under substrate on top of uth is bc a snake can and will eventually burrow and can get burned. Since you have other heat sources you will be ok until you buy a thermostat. Those analog type thermometers are very inaccurate. Something good to use with your ir temp gun is an acurite 00891, it has a probe you can put under the substrate on top of glass over the uth and you can run the rest of the unit over to the cool side for cool temp and humidity. It's one device that will give you all of your temps and humidity at a glance and is very accurate and will be good to compare to the ir temp gun. You will want to take the temp of the heat bulb right where the middle of the beam hits the ground. You can use a regular lamp dimmer to lower the temp of the red bulb if needed. Remember you want your hot side to be around 88-90 and no higher then 94 under substrate on top of the glass that is directly over the uth and cool side 78-82.
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