Quote Originally Posted by jotay
Glad everything worked out. I know that had to be terrifying.
The mineral oil sounds like a neat trick.
I know my vet says to use it if you ever have retained eyecaps after a shed.

I have a AP cage but I use bark as a substrate so I just lay my probe on the floor over the heat cable and cover it w/ bark. Seems to do the trick.
Extremely dangerous. When your snake dislodges the tstat probe (and its a when, not if) the heat cable will spike to over 140 degrees and could kill or seriously burn your snake.