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Heating question for the burrowing snake

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sockSnek

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My snake loves burrowing, and sometimes when she goes into a hide, she'll get under the aspen and push some of it out the door. How do you account for the temperature difference of the floor where the UTH is when you have varying amounts of aspen buffering it? I'm not that worried because she spends a decent amount of time in and out of the warm hide and the glass at the very bottom is cool enough that it'll never burn her, but I'm curious how other people handle this.

Also, if she's able to clear a space down to the glass, does that mean I should be using more aspen?
 
the snake will seek out the warmth it wants/needs, providing it can, and the cage is neither too hot nor too cold.

Most of us use heat pads under the glass, and we make the "Warm Spot" right on the actual glass bottom. Regardless of the substrate or the thickness, the temperature is measured on the glass.
 
They will burrow to the glass when they want to. As Karl has said, measure the temp there. Just adding my 2 cents because my Cleo does that exact same thing with pushing aspen out the door! :). I've found both my corn snakes on the glass fairly frequently, both over the heat pad and elsewhere.
 
I usually leave an aspen-free zone under Lily's warm hide anymore nowadays since she WILL just clear it out herself...figure I'd save her the trouble. I guess some snakes just really like warm glass, lol. Like the others said, just make sure the temp at the glass is okay and you shouldn't have any problems.
 
Ok. I was worried if I set the temperature based on the glass that the aspen wouldn't be warm enough if she didn't move it. But maybe just clearing the aspen from the hide is a good idea. She does seem to like it better that way.

Thanks for the input, everyone. :)
 
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