So you think she will be ok without the uth? Should I plug it in and unplug it if I'm around to monitor until I get it? I know belly heat is important.
You may not even need the UTH at all. Access to the right temperatures is important, "belly heat" isn't. In the wild there are warm surfaces, but they are heated from above by the sun, not from underneath.
As far as whether or not they "burrow" versus using burrows made by other animals - that's beside the point here. The reason is that you presumably have an inch of substrate or less above the UTH if it does anything for the surface temperature at all, and that substrate is presumably fairly loose. A ball python will very easily shove the substrate around while moving around and getting comfortable, and may well end up lying right on the glass. That's not really "burrowing" behavior; there's nothing to burrow in anyway in 1" of substrate. But just the snake can still get burned if the surface of the glass is hot enough.
You may not even need the UTH at all. Access to the right temperatures is important, "belly heat" isn't. In the wild there are warm surfaces, but they are heated from above by the sun, not from underneath.
As far as whether or not they "burrow" versus using burrows made by other animals - that's beside the point here. The reason is that you presumably have an inch of substrate or less above the UTH if it does anything for the surface temperature at all, and that substrate is presumably fairly loose. A ball python will very easily shove the substrate around while moving around and getting comfortable, and may well end up lying right on the glass. That's not really "burrowing" behavior; there's nothing to burrow in anyway in 1" of substrate. But just the snake can still get burned if the surface of the glass is hot enough.
This is so confusing for me. Lol I was always told belly heat. But I switched the uth to my Stat and got a dimmer for my CHE. I'm monitoring closely to have the Temps perfect. I asked in another post about perfect Temps and humidity because what I resd in the sticky isn't what I'm told and read elsewhere. She's in her first shed with me and I'm a worried mom right now. I want it to be perfect.
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