What is Your Opinions on Where You Put Your UTH Thermostat Probe?

[KMG]

I think that no matter how you wanna do it, be sure to secure the probe, and make sure to factor out possible temperature changes, like urates. You could do this by isolating the probe, or do daily checks. Either way, have a method of security and daily monitoring.

The reason why I think it doesn’t really matter how aside from what I’ve just stated, is because your thermostat can change settings! If it’s outside the enclosure you’ll have to set it around 96 to get it to 90 inside the enclosure(for example). If your probe is inside then you set it to 92, so that you can get 90 above the substrate(for example).

I think choice of where to put the probe is based on personal choice. Above the substrate is risky but maybe you have a way to secure it and check on it regularly so that it’s being monitored, and have been able to maintain accurate temperatures then great.

And sure, some methods are better, or easier than others, but I think as long as your method works for you, then keep doing you.

I can not agree with you. You have nothing to gain from putting the probe inside the cage for a UTH.

So you have to turn the tstat up a bit to get your desired temp.....that's normal with many heat devices. Heat is lost with distance. The longer the distance needed to travel the more you will need to ramp it up. This is why the substrate should be really thin. Then you do not have to ramp up the temp trying to get through a inch and half of mulch. Plus, the snake can easily burrow down to the UTH and move both the substrate and probe. My Ball roots around fairly often digging up the plants I have in there and moving things around.

You should also not cover the probe itself and tape just behind the probe on the wire. Doing it this way the snake could easily coil around it and lift the probe off. If this happens the probe will ramp the temp up and if the snake stays there long enough you could be dealing with a burned snake.

Google pics of burned snakes and see if you still believe it is worth it to place the probe inside the cage to save a few degrees in the settings of a tstat.