I said I didn't want nor meant to change your mind.
No matter how you secure the probe in a cage, there is more of a chance of it getting ruined by liquid or moved by an animal. If not glued or taped, how else is it secured? You cannot screw into a glass tank and you shouldn't into any other enclosure, because you will create a way for liquids to seep into the holes.
It would need to be secured to where the animal could not move it. BP's are heavy bodied snakes. They often shimmy and burrow their bodies to the bottom of the substrate, they move their hides and water dishes around as well, they push and pull stuff along.
So while YOU may have found the perfect way of securing a probe inside of a tank, without tape, glue, screws and in a way that the animal cannot move it, it seems to me that accomplishing that would be harder to do then to simply put it out of reach of the snake and its waste. Secured to the heat source, so that it keeps the heat source at the temp selected.
It seems common sense and the best/easiest way to accomplish the safest way.
But we can agree to disagree
