I built a cabinet-style cage, which is currently holding 2 adult corns, 1 blue tongue skink & 1 Hog Island Boa. I'm heating w/ human heating pads, nailed to the ceiling below each cage. Each ceiling/floor is made of 3/4" melamine. I have the pads on their lowest setting & on a rheostat, on its lowest setting. The boa cage, for some reason, is fine- 88 degrees. But both the corns' hot spots are over 100 degrees w/o any additional intervention. I've added a 12x12" tile over each hot spot, which helped a bit, but not enough. I then put a folded hand towel under each tile, which has also helped, but not enough, they're still around 89 degrees- too hot for corns.

I just don't know what else to do, short of putting them both on a timer where they turn on & off every 1/2 hour, all the time... Any suggsetions would be appreciated.

Here's my cage:

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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby

1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa

1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger

1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)

0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy

1.1.5 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & Thandie Newton

1.1 cats Gus & Mena

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