Supplementing issue

[Kfinch901]

Update: The 8 x 12 heat mat finally came in today, it is all hooked up to the thermostat and set at 91 degrees, but it doesn't feel very warm through the reptile carpet. And my gecko has suddenly become interested in the thermostat probe even though it's been in his tank for a week now, he wants to try and climb it all the time.

 

[Keeboard]

Do you not have a thermometer to confirm the temperature?

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Update: The 8 x 12 heat mat finally came in today, it is all hooked up to the thermostat and set at 91 degrees, but it doesn't feel very warm through the reptile carpet. And my gecko has suddenly become interested in the thermostat probe even though it's been in his tank for a week now, he wants to try and climb it all the time.

Hopefully your leo will get bored with that soon.

Are you monitoring/verifying the thermostat's setting with the probe from a digital thermometer? That's important. I tape both probes together, but offset some.

Sometimes heat mats need time to level out.

 

[Kfinch901]

Yup. I think it's becuase the heat mat wasn't heating at that particular moment becuase it was at 90.5 and dropping slowly according to my digital thermometer most likely due to the thermostat shutting it off once it hits 91. Feel like the reptile carpet doesn't keep in heat very well.