Enclosure for Boa

[CALM Pythons]

I'm still playing around with it. My understanding is that it doesn't really matter what temp the thermostat says on the hot side? As long as it's getting to 88-90 inside the enclosure? When I put the setting to 90 it was not nearly as hot as it should be in the enclosure, so right now its set to 105, I will check what it is at when I get home. I ended up cutting a small hole in the screen to get the probe in there and it seems to be working for the cool side. I'm still keeping an eye on the temps on the cool side because last night it was 64 in my room because it was so cold outside. I'll work on something to get the sides covered.

I have been looking at the T8 from Animal Plastics and I emailed them with some questions. Would this be big enough to last him for his entire life? So for the T8 I would use a heat panel on the side and a UTH?

Id never go less than a T10. You loose Hight inside, the outside measurement is 12" . So figure interior height to be around 10 1/2 inches on a T8 and Glass slider opening only 8" ( hard to get anything in & out cleaning) versus a T10 interior is 14" and Glass slider entrance 10". You would be surprised what a difference it is from 8" to 10" and it's worth every bit of $50 more. As far as the heating yes you can go with a RHP and a UTH incase the Temp is 65-68 during winter.. Otherwise the RHP is fine alone for 68+ homes/Rooms.

As far as the Hot side temps now I know its probably been mentioned 50 times but make sure to check the Glass above the UTH not the substrate. All my heating elementa match what the Tstat & thermistate says after 24 hrs of things absorbing the heat. Usually about 1° off.
Example.. My Tstat says 91... The hot side probe thermometer says 90.7... If I then check with a Lazer it says 89.3..88.7 and 90.1 in three different places. This is all after leaving the doors closed etc for 12hrs as everytime i clean it/open it a several times during winter it takes hrs to regulate again.