Quote Originally Posted by Teacherguy5 View Post
Picked up my first BP that will spend most of its time in a lab at the school I teach at with a number of other animals. We have an under tank pad on one side with a thermostat. We attached the probe to the bottom of the tank and set the therm to 95 degrees. That part is fine, but we have a thermometer right above that, and the ambient temp is down to 72-74 depending on time of day. On the other side we have a night bulb in and that said stays at 78-80 whenever I check it.

Question is, is the ambient temp on the heat pad side too low despite the thermostat keeping it at 95? Carl (the snake) will bury himself in the aspen shavings on the heat pad side I've noticed to pick up more of the heat I assume.
Ambient temp as little to nothing to do with the hot spot and your UTH your cool and ambient temps depend on the temp in your home so if you cannot achieve 75 degrees min on the cool side you will need to either get your room temp up which is not very efficient for once snake, or supply with additional heat (can be a second heat pad with an additional thermostat set for the cool side)

We attached the probe to the bottom of the tank
Hopefully not inside the tank correct?