Temperature help!
I am having issues with the temperature on the hot side of my enclosure. I have a 25 gallon enclosure for a baby/juvenile corn snake. I have the zoo-med repetitemp digital thermostat with the probe (circled in red in all pictures) on the glass panel of the warm end of the enclosure. The basking spot / warm hide that sits under a 75 watt Arcadia basking bulb is reading 100+ degrees surface temperature (shown in picture 3) but the warm end’s ambient temperature, as per the thermostat probe, is sitting at around the recommended 83-84 degrees (shown in picture 2). How can I bring down the surface temperature of the basking spot to the recommended 90 degrees without lowering ambient temp of 84 degrees on the warm end of the enclosure. I tried a smaller bulb, however when I plug in a 50 watt halogen basking bulb the ambient temperature of the warm end, as per the thermostat probe, struggles to stay above 82 degrees while the surface temperature of the basking spot is at about 97 degrees. The corn snake is not yet in the enclosure, I’m waiting to set up the enclosure correctly before picking him up from the reptile store.