Going Insane! Please Help me Perfect my Tank!

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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.

Your issue with the thermometer reading differently is caused by having one directly under that heat lamp. The heat is coming straight down on that one so you're seeing a higher temp and a lower humidity. Think of it this way, if I hold a hot dog next to a campfire it won't cook as quickly has if I hold it over a camp fire. Your thermometer on the wall is catching ambient heat, your one on the ground is getting direct heart.

I have found that if you can place a bed sheet over the enclosure it holds temperature and humidity a lot better. I see that you have a heat lamp in there and I have heard that a lamp stresses them out. Also if you got rid of the heat lamp it would give you the ability to add the bed sheet over the enclosure. Consider ditching the heat lamp and using a heat pad/heat tape under the enclosure in a spot that does not cover the entire bottom but has enough space to have her entire body comfortably heated if she wants to use the heat spot. I think that you are doing pretty good so far. Hope this helps.

I don't entirely agree with this advice. Belly heat, aka heat generated by a UTH or heat tape, does next to nothing for ambient temperatures in the enclosure. I've also never seen anyone using a bedsheet to hold in heat and humidity. Not saying it's not possible, but the duct tape + aluminum foil method has never failed me. Regardless I wouldn't recommend getting rid of the overhead heat when OP said that room gets pretty cold. If you want to do away with the light generating heat lamp, a ceramic heat emitter is a great option, but I think you'll find many keepers here that have kept snakes under some type of nighttime bulb with no issues.