Temperature? Thermostat probe? Help for a new BP keeper

[Craiga 01453]

Cheers for your answer. Actually I do use a temp gun and this was the source of my "problem". When the probe touches the heat-mat or the plastic just above the heat-mat it reads the temp of the actual mat and when I then measure the temp of the bedding using my temp gun it is way lower than the temp of the mat. My thermostat is usually porgrammed so that the mat reaches about 90F but then the temp of the bedding in the enclosure is only about 70-80F in the hotside. I've seen a video from the channel Snake Discovery on Youtube (that appeared very professional and well-informed) and the girl from the channel said to set the tub with the thermostat probe inside the enclosure above the heat-mat under the bedding. This though, does not change my problem since whatever the case the temp of the actual bedding is always way lower that the temp of the UTH.

Do you think I should still put the probe sandwiched between the mat and the enclosure as you said and set it above 90F so that the temp of the bedding and hides where the snake actually is rises too? Or maybe I should use just a half as thick of aspen fiber layer?

Yes, the probe goes OUTSIDE, for the reasons I mentioned above.

Also, the substrate temp is not important. The ACTUAL SURFACE temp is what's important

[Lejiamka]

Thank you all so much for your answers ^^. I was kind of freaking out that the temp of the substrate was too low but I'm now reassured; the temp at the bottom of my enclosure is 91F so so far so good ^^. Plus she has a ceramic cave with no bedding under (so that the ceramic bottom of the cave is directly above the heat-mat) the cave is thus at 88-90F it will be good for her.

Cheers everyone

expect more of me here very soon , I have a lot of questions and I'm really trying to provide as good as I can for my girl ^^