Thanks.. sorry again for the long post.

Thanks for the reply... It's v. frustrating that I have a similar setup (ie. 20L tank, ZooMed 20Gal heat pad, 75w bulb) and yet my temps and humidity are way off. I have two hides, and a medium water bowl.. I will try a longer one.

I am going to swap out my bark mulch for newpaper/papertowel and potentially aspen.. I just feel like my snake has gone through so much in the past week that re-doing his environment can wait a day or two.

thanks again... you are helping!

Oh -
My thermometer probes are currently under the substrate to measure the temp of the glass... is that wrong?