As with many post's in here, I'm also new to this snake housing science but after spending the last few hours browsing the site I think I may have it somewhat figured out. I got my ball python (spot) a month or so ago, along with a ten gallon enclosure. The pet store also recommended some aspen bedding, a hide log, water dish, and a heating lamp.
- Since that day I have been struggling with the temps and humidity, that is before today when I realized that it was belly temps not ambient air temps that your looking for. After moving my acu-rite temp probes around to where they need to be and adding the alum. foil to the lid (until i can cut my lexan tomorrow) everything seems to be just right, minus the MASSIVE water dish in the tank.
The belly temp on the warm is a toasty 91 degrees, the cool is almost 76 and the ambient air temp is a tad chilly although the CHT and thermostat are running as we speak and I'm hoping that will help bring the cool side temp to where it needs to be. My only question is even though my temp probe is on the glass directly above the UTH and it's registering 91 degrees is there still a need for a thermostat on it or is it safe as is?
Thanks for all the useful posts!!
-Craig