First BP, question on heating pad and ambient temp.

[Teacherguy5]

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)

Hopefully not inside the tank correct?

The probe is inside the tank. The heating pad is under the tank. Just watching youtube this is how we saw it done. We ran with a heat lamp for a week or two but I kept seeing heat pads are better for ball pythons.

In my head, I'm weighing out as if the same thing were happening for a person. If I'm in a warehouse, the temp for me the floor could be significantly different than the temp at the ceiling, but hey, different species here.