Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
You cannot be guessing what the high temp. is in his home, & 26-28 is okay for cool/ambient, but not warm enough for digestion- his "warm side" should be 30-32*, but you also MUST make sure it's not exceeding that. There's a fine line between health-promoting & un-safe for BPs.

And the temp. probe belongs on the OUTSIDE- never inside where it WILL get moved or wet, & not register accurately. Once you set the thermostat to achieve the right warmth inside, you need to be double checking more than once (& under the substrate where the snake can potentially make contact) with an accurate temp. gun- you cannot rely on what a t-stat is set to, you have to make sure of what it's actually achieving. And it's totally unsafe if the snake can move the probe, your snake can get injured- "burned"- by excessive heat.
I apologise if i made you misunderstand, but it was just a momentary guess since my BP was just slithering around moving everything and also slightly moving the thermometer up, while i always put it right on the plastic floor under the substrate. When the probe is where it should be, it measures 30° C, just like it does right now after putting it back in place. I did commit the mistake of putting the thermostat probe right with the thermometer's right under the substrate, and since the stat had to warm up through a layer of plastic (as explained from one person in my previous thread) it was overheating and had temp "roller-coasters". I sandwiched the thermostats' probes between the mats and tub, and it all seems to be okay now. I left the thermometer probes in cause they won't make the mats overheat even if (for example) some water spills on one of them, but i do often check if they are reading the temp where they should be and if there's some liquid interrupting them, i also keep them down with a pebble so they aren't that easily movable. But i keep the therm probes in not only for the mat reason, but also cause they read the spot right where the snake can be on, but i can change up things if needed. I will buy a temp gun too, since everyone keeps reccomending one.