Setting up UTH and thermostat

[MakersMarked]

I'm setting up a new tank for the baby I just ordered from Steve Roylance. I set up everything pretty much exactly the way I did for the baby corn I had 6 years ago, including suction cupping the thermostat probe directly to the bottom glass right above the UTH. But I've noticed all the care sheets (and the instructions that came w/ the thermostat) say to put the probe on the wall of the hot side, not directly above the UTH. But then how do I know that the spot right above the UTH isn't getting too hot? The whole reason they say never to use heat rocks with snakes is that they won't notice right away that they're getting burned.

 

[Nanci]

You put the thermostat probe, and the thermometer probe, directly in the center of the UTH, in the viv, under the substrate.

 

[MakersMarked]

You put the thermostat probe, and the thermometer probe, directly in the center of the UTH, in the viv, under the substrate.

That's what I thought. Thanks!

 

[NH93]

I second what Nanci said!
For some species that require higher temperatures, it is generally essential that they not only have probed thermometers (and obviously thermostats) for the UTH, but a second digital thermometer for the warm side, as well as one for the cool side. It's a lot of little things, but the 3 thermometers are pretty important. For example, I have 3 for my ball python because they need higher temperatures than corns, whereas my corn has only got one probe and on digital.