Good Afternoon everyone! I have a pretty specific question that I haven't been able to find much information on and it is driving me absolutely BONKERS so I figured I would throw this at you guys. I have been driving myself absolutely insane about my girl's husbandry as of late. As you can see, I have a 40 gal glass enclosure and with that came the responsibility of modifying the heck out of it to be able to hold temperature and humidity well. Well, I think I have FINALLY perfected it. I have plexiglass on 3/4 of the top with aluminum foil on the rest, with a hole cut out for her heat source. She also has a UTH which helps a bunch for when the ambients fall (her room can get pretty cold at night, also the room's ambient temps are not high enough to use the UTH as her main source of heat, I've tried. ). According to the 5 thermostats I have in her tank (I am a bit on the OCD side when it comes to her), the temps and humidity are quite perfect.

And then there's this one little issue that I'm having. I am attaching two photos of two of the thermostats that I have in her enclosure.


One that is on the floor on her hot side and one that is just about an inch (hard ish) off the floor affixed to the glass. The one that's on the floor reads 89* and 42% humidity, while the one on the glass reads 80* and 56% humidity. I have double checked both with my temp gun and they both are reading correctly, but is it normal for these temps so close to each other to vary so wildly? Her ambient thermometer is reading between 77-79* with 60-65% humidity. I am awfully confused, am I missing something or...am I just being way, way too paranoid? I really need to stop reading horror stories online about how BPs are dying due to husbandry issues that went unnoticed. She is eating fine and is active at night as per the norm, so she's not acting weirdly or anything.

***Please note that she is on paper towels and her tank is pretty barren (hence husbandry issues in the first dang place) because she is recovering from being ill. I am excited to say that she has come a long, long way since bringing her to the vet and treating her. But now I'm going a little insane.

Please help to either put me at ease or let me know what I am doing wrong.

Sincerely, an OCD BP mom who doesn't sleep at night.