Hi everyone,

Its day 5 since we bought our banana fire dbl het clown home. His name is Lomu. We are based in the UK. It's been a rough ride as we had some glitches along the way and are salvaging the situation.

We own a corn snake as well and realised that we are in another league completely in comparison to snake care. Royal pythons are not for beginners. That being said we are moving forward positively and only have our snakes best interest at heart.

We are using a 3foot wooden viv. We are also using a Deep heat projector and have a probe for it and the thermometer probe. We just want to make sure that the probe is placed in the correct place. We bought an infared gun today.

We are changing our stat to a dimmer one as it works best with the DHP.

I want to attach photos but I cannot find the sticky that explains how to do it. Please could someone kindly direct me to where I can find it.

Can a probe be placed under a hide and should the hide be placed right under the heat source. With our corn snake we have the hot hide just to the side.

Does anyone have problems keeping the temp at the cold side up?!

We have placed a few hides in the hot area and have a hide in the cold with the humid hide in the middle. Once I can attach the pictures you will see that the probe and thermometer are attached to a small log on top of the substrate. They may be too high off the ground to get the surface temp accurate.