My husbandry SUCKS

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I couldn't keep my temps or humidity stable in my new bp display... Temp was too high, humidity was too low... So I moved the UTH under the larger water dish and it fixed itself. Haven't yet created snake soup, but I have the display next to my bed and I'm watching it like a hawk...

I would strongly, strongly, strongly recommend getting yourself a good, high-quality powerstrip with timer outlets and having literally twice as many thermometers / hygrometers in your displays as you need. Different brands too. I have 4 different brands in each enclosure so if 3 of them read the same and 1 is way off, I know exactly which one I can't trust. EVERYTHING needs to be hooked up to a secondary control of some kind, literally everything, if anyone tells you otherwise, don't listen. The only exception I can think of would be a dimmer on lights... Some lamps will blow with a dimmer on them. You need a thermostatic control for all of your heat sources to avoid disasters. UTH are just as dangerous, if not moreso, than a rock heater if they are not plugged into a thermostatic controller. A snake can easily tell when a heat rock starts and ends, and while they don't always crawl off, they can crawl off. An overheated UTH isn't as obvious to them and also runs the risk of cracking or melting whatever it is stuck to. Having some sort of control or protection from malfunctioning heat sources is vital to prevent injuries, death, and housefires.

As for the humidity, I am a firm believer in hand-misting everything. It is the only way to ensure it's done the way you want it done. Some people have way too many snakes to realistically do that, and in that situation, or with snakes that require very high humidity, I'd recommend putting a small UTH under a large water dish, with a second (cool) dish on the other end. Best part? You can stick a simple thermometer into the water dish and tell how warm it is very easily. There are cons to everything, nothing is perfect, there are things we all did 10 years ago that were fine back then and now we know that actually they weren't.

I use the exo terra glass terrariums and have small pieces of glass cut to fit the top where I need it, to keep the humidity in. If the humidity is too high, just leave the screen top open and it flies out like a fart in the wind. I only have three snakes, and only one of them is a bp, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I do have to say, of all of the people I have ever heard of posting about bad husbandry, you are, hands down, the most caring pet parent I have ever seen out of all of them and your snake is very lucky to have you. Thank you for loving your snake.