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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by andsm1[/i] [br]i have recently got a 2 foot wooden vivarium to house my nelsons milksnake, i have got an 11" x 11" heat mat, a thermostat and a digital thermometer with 2 probes. my question is do i lay the thermostat probe and one thermometer probe directly on the heat mat and the cover the whole lot with a thin layer of aspen, or do the probes go on top of the substrate? i would imagine the snake would be burrowing into the aspen so would come in contact with the heat mat, is this ok? one more, what temperature should i set the thermostat to, is between 85 - 90 ok? [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.