Quote Originally Posted by anendeloflorien View Post
You're going to COOK your snake. No matter how deep that substrate is he's going to burrow down into it and hit that 110 degree glass. Switch to using either a thin layer of aspen or cypress mulch or just use newspaper. The temp on top of the substrate may be too low (you need to get a temp gun to tell for sure) in which case that animal is going to find a way to get to the warm spot.

#1 Get a thermostat.

#2 Get a temp gun

#3 Change out the substrate

Then come back and let us know how it goes.
good advice!