BP tempatures okay?

[dakski]

I've reprogrammed the thermostat to keep the warm side at 88F with a basking tempatures of 92F.
At night the warm side stays between 75-80F the temp drops because I don't have UVA/UVB on at night.

Should I buy a heating mat for night?
I don't know what to do about the cold side, people have told me the cool side doesn't matter and the snake will regulate itself if the hot side is proper.

The thermostat I use has multiple outlets, it automatically dims/turns all lights on and off.
I'm currently using 3 lamps, I should get a forth for the CHE?

1. Basking temp still too hot. Make warm side 86-88F with no more than a 90F basking spot.

2. Cool side is important. Snakes to need to thermoregulate. That means pick the temps that are good for them at that time. However, it's up to us as keepers to make sure those temps are correct. That means not too hot on the hot side and not too cold on the cool side. Please read what I said in above post about cool side options - either a CHE or a heat mat on thermostat.

3. You should not have lamps at all IMO. You should have heating elements, like CHE's that don't give off light and therefore can stay on all the time. This should keep your night temps from dropping because you are turning off heating elements to eliminate light.

What kind of thermostat are you using? Some bulbs, like UVB, aren't really made to dim. A thermostat and a dimmer is not the same thing. Do you have a dimmer or a thermostat? Again, if the latter, what kind? If it's a proper thermostat it will have a probe for reading temps and a dial to adjust temperature. IMPORTANT: What you set the thermostat to and ground temps are not always, in fact rarely the same. A thermostat probe should hang, ideally halfway between the heating element and the ground. You could set it to 85F and depending on the type of heating element, it could be much warmer or colder at the ground. The thermostat will set the temp to the thermostat probes temp, which is not necessarily the temp you want on the ground where your BP is. It's fine if they are not the same as long as the ground temp is what you want. That could be 85F on the thermostat, or 80F, or 90F. You have to do some trial and error depending on tank, tank size, height, type of heating element, and thermostat.

I would recommend dialing it in without your BP in the tank so it doesn't get too hot.