Quote Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl View Post
You have too many things wrong.
First you need to fix your husbandry.
Your snake is staying on the cool side more because you are really trying to cook it.
You are probably well over 120 degrees in the hot hide under the substrate so you need to unplug that UTH.
There is a way to regulate the under tank heater, its a thermostat that you need.
Substrate is not a way you regulate your heat, actually more than about a 1/4 inch is just helping it to sink and get even hotter.

Someone before mentioned a inkbird itc-308 that I was looking into so I can monitor the UTH. My snake uses both her warm and cool side equally, she has never spent more time on one or the other. My UTH is not very strong and even after moving the substrate to feel the heat it's just a dull warmness. She has never burrowed and never seemed bothered by being over the UTH, she frequently goes here actually. I have unplugged the UTH at request and I will keep it unplugged until I purchase a inkbird itc-308 or if she starts spending more time on the warm side I will turn in back on. Her only heat source now besides the temperature of the room is an infrared heater above the tank on the warm side, keeping the temperature between 85-90 F.