Zux
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That will change them a little I think Jess but I feel to solve the issue the probe needs to be surrounded by the medium we wish to test, so for example when it hangs in the air it is and thus presents accurate readings, probe thermometers in liquids can be similarly trusted.
This issue for us however is more an annoyance than a real problem since we are aware of it and can get the true readings of floor temps from the temp-guns and use the thermometers as backup.
The reason I brought it up even though I solved it on my end was because it worried me how many people tape the probes together on top of tile, read the temperatures and understandably think they are all set. Like I mentioned before my readings were up to 10 degrees off at times when read from either thermostats or probe thermometers, which would mean 92F was in fact 102F :shock:. That becomes all the more worrying for those new keepers who house Leos in smaller terrariums in which they may not have an escape from the heat, worse still - the keeper may never realize because the probes he/she should trust are misleading :sad:.
and they are all almost spot on with one another, my temp gun read 92, while the thermostat read 91 and thermometer read 90. The surrounding tile all had a temperature gradient of 87-92 and Ziggy read about 88 because he decided to get in my way.