Just bought a IR temp gun today, should be here by this weekend.
Need to do some more research on TStats, but will oreder one in the next day or two

As for newspaper..... It is hard to keep humidity up in the cage with the coconut husk and a almost completely sealed lid (last 3" are unsealed) With all of that I was still getting humidity in the 30% range after 18hours. Misting twice a day keeps the humidity around 60%. I dont know if I could keep it up with newspaper.